Reply to Alan Winfield on Machine Intelligence.
I posted this as a reply three times on Alan's blogpost about machine intelligence, couldn't get the blogger to work, so gave up and posted it here... Hi Alan – I completely disagree that robot...
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The surveillance society is a basket of crabs
Yesterday I was an invited panellist at the University of Vienna's celebration net:25– 25 years since they laid a line connecting them to CERN and adopted with Europe the TCP/IP protocol for global...
View ArticleMy theory of the origins of human uniqueness
As a postgraduate in Edinburgh in the late 1990s I wound getting engaged in the question of the evolutionary origins of language. At first I thought this was a bit of baroque fun, but then I realised...
View ArticleDriving the excesses of US health care
I'm worrying about the health care system I am about to move back into, if only for a year. I used to think that although Americans paid too much (for the same drugs and equipment Europeans pay less...
View ArticleFreedom to Tinker and this blog
This blog started as a series of letters home to my nuclear family during my first Sabbatical (2007, at the KLI). During that sabbatical I started realising other people were reading my blog too, and...
View ArticleFreedom to Tinker: Robots don’t threaten, but may be useful threats
My first post on FtT is about AI moral agency and public communication. Robots don’t threaten, but may be useful threats. Future posts will not be recaps of my published positions, this was just a...
View ArticleArguing with reviewers in the response letter
This is about publishing in journals. I just had a (junior) coauthor suggest we do something I absolutely hate as a reviewer and editor: respond to a comment by a reviewer only in the response...
View ArticleIncome disparity affects everyone, so it isn't just class warfare
The quote below is a slight modification of a post I made to a local political group's mailing list in response to another posting about class warfare. It also reflects a conversation I had yesterday...
View ArticleI could do that
I love this video mostly because of what it says about art – and its length, less than six minutes. But why I post it is because this is what technology is doing to all of society: what photography...
View ArticleWomen's Forum Special Report: Does Artificial Intelligence benefit all parts...
Wow, I have not been blogging as much as I thought since I've been on sabbatical. But I did do an "over email" interview which has turned out quite handsome. I don't know where their pictures of...
View Articlewhy I'm less worried about the future of work (a few quick notes)
I said in discussion with Chris Bishop and Cecelia Tilli on Newsnight Thursday night that I was getting less worried about the future of work. I want to reiterate, less worried, not that I'm not...
View ArticleClones should NOT be slaves
More progress I think in my attempt to untangle the confusion behind why people think robots are moral patients. You should read robots are more like novels than children first. Then below I respond...
View ArticleOn being made an instrument of the state
I just got a robocall from a neighbouring police department asking me to search my "vehicles and outbuildings" for a specific, named, 16-year-old who went missing less than 11 hours ago. I'm wondering...
View ArticleMore from me on the threats and non-threats of AI
I've been busy lately, but just so these are indexed:Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More than It Thinks, by Guy Claxton. That's a THE book review by me, but the book and...
View ArticleHistorical objectivity
No country can develop without science–it will be destroyed by its neighbors. Without arts and general culture, the country loses its capacity for self-criticism, begins to encourage faulty...
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AI & Consciousness, in 5x140 characters
This is from twitter, so you want to scroll down to the bottom of the page and then read back up to the top to get the tweets in order. The paper I mention in the one tweet I managed not to grab is A...
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Who owns the official recording of your interaction with the police?
On 28 July 2015, the Los Angeles Times notified its readers that it had fired editorial cartoonist Ted Rall, as a result of a tape produced by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) appearing to...
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2015: The first year AI nearly killed me
When I talk about AI ethics I usually emphasise that the AI itself is not a danger, but rather what people do with the AI. The dangers are the changes AI affords in society. Instead of people looking...
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AI Ethics and Car Wars
I wrote this the weekend of the NIPS ethics panel, when OpenAI was announced, and Star Wars was coming out in a few days. Then I tried to get it "published" in the media. That my brilliant title is...
View ArticleUpdate on (Accelerating!) AI Car Wars
I just added the below to my AI ethics & Car Wars post, but I also stuck it here so you don't have to scroll down if you already read that post. And to acknowledge that I only know about the below...
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