

IN GERMAN / AUF DEUTSCH: meine Keynote an der Uni Bern am 15 Februar 2019: Reflektierter Umgang mit Digitalisierung: Hochschulbildung zwischen digitaler Transformation und akademischen...

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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
03
Mar 2019

Why Telefonica’s New Digital Deal is big news
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan In 2018, Spain's biggest telco Telefonica released its “New Digital Deal“, a manifesto towards a human-centric...
03
Mar 2019

Seeking Ground Rules for A.I.
In February of this year, the New York Times hosted the ‘New Work Summit', gathering together some of the greatest minds globally to “…assess the opportunities...
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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 book Technology vs Humanity : the Internet of Inhuman things? (Peter Van and Gerd Leonhard). This week...
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Mar 2019

Uber and the Ongoing Erasure of Public Life (good read via The New Yorker)
“Cities struggling to keep subways and buses running are being drained of revenue by tech companies and a reserve army of cars. These cars, in...
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Feb 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 to the sixth issue of our Digital Ethics Newsletter. In this week’s edition, we look into...
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Feb 2019

Complete video and audio recordings of my keynote at BuildingTheFuture Lisbon January 2019: technology and humanity – the future
This is the complete recording of my keynote of the Building The Future / Microsoft Ativar Event in Lisbon Jan 30 2019 see http://buildingthefuture.pt Topics in...
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Feb 2019

A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist (Sean Dorrance Kelly) #manmachine
Sean Dorrance Kelly is a philosophy professor at Harvard and coauthor of the New York Times best-selling book All Things Shining. In this lengthy but...
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Feb 2019

No sugarcoating – this is Surveillance (says Apple CEO Tim Cook at an EU commission event)
Extract from Tim Cook's keynote address to the European Parliament in October last year. We are delighted to hear Tim be that clear on privacy...
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Feb 2019

AI is supervised learning (says Ginni Rometty, CEO IBM)
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty explains the benefits of Watson and AI in general. Very astute and sometimes equally worrying. “This is supervised learning: Watson has...