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From efficiency to human agency: Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard on AI
Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard had a good chat last week. It was a wide-ranging conversation on AI and its potential dangers to humanity – so I...
Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics
Derek Lidow writes a great piece for Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg And The Tech World Still Do Not Understand Ethics. Here's an excerpt: “Expectations for technology startups...
12
Mar 2019
Zuckerberg Wants Facebook to Build a Mind-Reading Machine
“The idea is to allow people to use their thoughts to navigate intuitively through augmented reality—the neuro-driven version of the world recently described by Kevin...
12
Mar 2019
“Dear Tech Company”: A nice counter-narrative to IBM’s promotional video
On 12 Feb 2019, IBM published a new video advertisement “Dear Tech, An Open Letter to the Industry” asking what kind of tech company does the...
11
Mar 2019
2001: A Space Odyssey gets the Google makeover
2001: A Space Odyssey is a much-loved favorite when it comes to sci-fi fantasy movies. In fact, it's one of my own personal favorites. And...
10
Mar 2019
How AI will rewire us (good read via TheAtlantic)
I like AI discussions that focus on humans or human behaviour. This week, I really enjoyed Nicholas A. Christakis's piece, ‘How AI Will Rewire Us'...
09
Mar 2019
Is the Microsoft Hololens 2 creating a blurred vision of who and what we are?
Microsoft launched Hololens2 at the latest Mobile World Congress. Hololens2 are the upgrade to the original set of ‘mixed reality smartglasses' that utilize VR technology to...
09
Mar 2019
MMC Investor’s advice on Artificial Intelligence
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan MMC Ventures, a research-led venture capital firm, together with Barclays UK Ventures just published “The State...
08
Mar 2019
New podcast! Technology vs Humanity Chapter 6: From Magic to Manic to Toxic.
Here is our next podcast based on chapter-6 of my book Technology vs Humanity, entitled ‘From Magic to Manic to Toxic'. It features The Future's Agency Peter Van and me, Gerd...
07
Mar 2019
(in German): Neues Video: Gerd Leonhard Keynote am Tag der Lehre Uni Bern: Futurist Gerd Leonhard: Die Rolle der Hochschule in einer digitalisierten Zukunft
IN GERMAN / AUF DEUTSCH: meine Keynote an der Uni Bern am 15 Februar 2019: Reflektierter Umgang mit Digitalisierung: Hochschulbildung zwischen digitaler Transformation und akademischen...
06
Mar 2019
Issue #7 of Digital Ethics just went live: robot tax, Google & the DoD, sensor panic, and more.
⚡️My latest newsletter on #digitalethics just went live. This week we look at robot tax, Google & the DoD, sensor panic and a cool podcast....
05
Mar 2019
Uploading Your Brain To A Computer Does Not Make Sense
Neural engineer Polina Anikeeva, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, offers a great TEDx talk on the differences in natural ‘brain hardware'...
05
Mar 2019
Microsoft Workers for good : towards a corporate spring, fuelled by #digitalethics ?
In a letter addressed to top executives, a group of Microsoft workers who worked on the company’s HoloLens headset sent a letter to Microsoft CEO...
05
Mar 2019
MIT Technology Review analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next (good read)
“The biggest shift we found was a transition away from knowledge-based systems by the early 2000s. These computer programs are based on the idea that...
05
Mar 2019
A very unique podcast with Azeem Azhar and Gerd Leonhard: Artificial Intelligence – heaven or hell?
Azeem Azhar and I had a good chat last week: a wide-ranging conversation on AI and its potential dangers to humanity. On the one hand, humans...
04
Mar 2019
Audio version of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote at the Emirates Litfest 2019 in Dubai: Technology and humanity: the Future
Here is the audio version of my talking Dubai on Saturday March 2, at the Emirates Litfest 2019 in Dubai. I really enjoyed being at...
04
Mar 2019
This is Silicon Valley (must-read by Gloria Liou)
Medium writer Gloria Liou is born-and-bred Silicon Valley. She describes her home as an idyllic location where” …people feast on $15 sushirritos and $6 Blue...
03
Mar 2019
Gerd’s new contribution on Forbes.com: All Paths Must Lead To Collective Human Flourishing
This post is co-produced by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan Gerd was recently invited to make ongoing contributions to Forbes’ Cognitive World, a knowledge...
