We should challenge the cult of Singularity (says Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab)
The Director of the MIT Media Lab Joi Ito has ...
New podcast: conversation on Digital Ethics, Chapter 10 of Gerd Leonhard’s book ‘Technology vs Humanity’. Technology does not have ethics – but we must!
In this podcast Peter Van and me talk about Chapter ...
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Apr 2019
The ethics of care and radical data science: an inhumane reduction of humanity down to what can be counted?
Os Keyes is a PhD student at the University of Washington ...
15
Apr 2019
Curing death or ageing better? Healthspan vs. lifespan
Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite says we need to fix our ...
06
Apr 2019
We have to stop robots from outsmarting humanity
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. ...
31
Mar 2019
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 ...
25
Mar 2019
Humanity is on ‘the highway to digital dictatorship’, says Yuval Noah Harari (but it’s not inevitable)
“Well, none of this is inevitable,” he says, suddenly eager ...
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Mar 2019
Cats and guacamole: a reflection on platform loyalty and information fiduciaries.
Jonathan Zittrain, Founder of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & ...
15
Mar 2019
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
“The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts ...
12
Mar 2019
How AI will rewire us (good read via TheAtlantic)
I like AI discussions that focus on humans or human ...
09
Mar 2019
New Podcast: how to humanise the IoT (Internet of Things); Chapter 5 of Gerd’s book Technology vs Humanity
Here is our next podcast based on chapter-5 of Gerd's ...
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Mar 2019
Gerd’s Digital Ethics newsletter #6 has been published: AI versus human creativity, big tech engages with ethics… and more
Read the latest edition here (and yes… sign up!) Welcome ...
26
Feb 2019
Please sign up for my Digital Ethics newsletter – this is the #1 technology topic in 2019
Go here to read the latest edition and sign up ...
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Feb 2019
Team Human vs Team AI: when Rushkoff meets Morozov
Guest post by The Futures Agency curator Peter Van Rushkoff ...
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Feb 2019
The age of surveillance capitalism: are we pawns or chess-players?
This post was co-produced with Peter Van Both The Guardian and ...
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Feb 2019
Creating Alternate Synthetic Minds: Shall we let the fox guard the henhouse?
Guest post by Peter Van In this post, we’ll have ...
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Feb 2019
New podcast with Matt Ward: Megashifts, AI and Why the Future is More Unknowable than Ever
Listen to it now on iTunes Matt Ward is a ...
