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Universities compete for leadership in Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
It looks like universities around the world are engaged in a fierce competition to claim the pole-position on digital ethics, especially when it comes to...
Preparing For Tomorrow’s Workforce In A World Run By Machines
Gerd's brand new post just went live on Forbes. As smart machines and algorithms begin to excel over and above human capacity, Gerd believes that we...
25
Mar 2019
The dark and shady practices of Silicon Valley
Roger McNamee has been a Silicon Valley investor for 35 years and was one of the early investors in Facebook. He has just published his new...
25
Mar 2019
The future of work is moving towards an availability economy.
Slate has a great post about the future of work – an adapted excerpt from Alex Rosenblat’s latest book Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules...
21
Mar 2019
Are robots the new class of social actors?
The Atlantic published an excellent article last week titled “How AI will Rewire Us”. The author comments on a number of lab experiments where people...
20
Mar 2019
Cats and guacamole: a reflection on platform loyalty and information fiduciaries.
Jonathan Zittrain, Founder of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, talks about a platform’s core purpose at EnlightED2019. The conference was curated by Telefonica around the...
15
Mar 2019
The concept of the Ethical Vendor: accountable, auditable and ethical
Last week, Niccolo Mejia shared in interesting view of the usage of facial recognition in financial applications. He listed three categories: Verifying identity for loan...
13
Mar 2019
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...
13
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
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
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
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
Amazon acquires Eero – why that is that worrying?
Amazon has acquired Eero, the mesh-Wifi company. What is mesh-Wifi? https://youtu.be/tOcvNoEOyMQ The Verge has some critical reflections on why this is worrying. The concerns are...
23
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 for this weekly summary of the best #digitalethics (the ethics of exponential technological change) finds...
23
Feb 2019
Machines are Quanta, Humans have Qualia: what makes us unique as human beings?
Guest post by The Futures Agency content curator Petervan The world has become obsessed with data: quantifiable and computable data that can be processed, analyzed,...
