By Ellen Nantau I was standing in an airport customs line when I realized that I wanted to be a physician. An announcement sounded overhead – an employee asking if anyone present was a doctor. My parents, both in medicine, shared a look. We were already at risk of missing our connecting flight and neither […]
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— Video In a presentation on the ethical challenges emerging with the rapid expansion of AI and robotics, in which the humanities too have become a target of automation, Teresa Heffernan argues that it is only by maintaining the tensions between these domains that we can hope to have an informed debate about the limits
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— A forthcoming talk by Teresa Heffernan The era of “disruptive” technologies has given way to an ethical quagmire. Biased algorithms, invasive facial recognition software, proprietary black boxes, the theft and monetization of personal data, and the proliferation of hate-spewing bots and deepfakes have undermined democracy. Killer robots and the automation of war have led
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