by David Brenner | Apr 9, 2019 | Personal Perspective
A number of recent books and articles have highlighted to me how important the concept of “choice” is in our consideration of the opportunities and risks posed by AI-powered applications and technologies. For starters, there is the foundational question of whether we...
by Tim Weinhold | Apr 9, 2019 | Personal Perspective
The intersection of two recent NY Times articles got my attention. One was entitled “Wealthy, Successful and Miserable.” Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charles Duhigg for the NY Times Magazine, it describes his shock at discovering that, 15 years out,...
by Tim Weinhold | Jan 26, 2019 | Personal Perspective
The Tension Between Materialism and Faith In his provocative book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity, Byron Reese inadvertently provides answers to a question for which answers are neither easy nor obvious: ‘why AI and...
by Tim Weinhold | Oct 1, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Drowning in Fake News and Bias In (even reasonably) normal times, Alex Jones would be the poster boy, par excellence, for fake news. On his Infowars website, and in a blizzard of social media, Mr. Jones has zealously promoted an alternative theory regarding what took...
by Daniel Rasmus | Sep 12, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Before Writing Ethics for Robots, Let’s Get Humans to Apply their own Ethics First The August 4 copy of New Scientist included an article titled Robot Laws ( in the digital version the title expanded to Robot laws: Why we need a code of conduct for AI – and fast),...
by Tim Weinhold | Jul 31, 2018 | Personal Perspective
Most of the threats posed by AI are decidedly uncertain. The threat posed by singularity — the point when robots gain general intelligence and potentially topple their human overlords — remains unclear, it’s likelihood far from certain. Artificial intelligence may...
