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The AIs we make are only as good as the society we make them in. So what do we do when that society is ableist or racist...
01/03/2022

The AIs we make are only as good as the society we make them in. So what do we do when that society is ableist or racist?

When an AI trains on data, it implicitly picks up on the biases of humans. Controlling for the ability to pay rent, African Americans in the United States experience disparate treatment in the housing market 50% of the time compared to white Americans. So the solution is AI algorithms that can assign housing fairly right? Well, not so fast.

During all parts of an AI’s development, from construction to deployment, there are implicit biases at work. AI algorithms have been found to have overcharged minority buyers by millions of dollars.

As we move forward into the future, we have to ask ourselves how to better construct AI for a kinder, fairer world.

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Access the form here: www.njoag.gov/facialrecognitionAs facial recognition technology improves, so have its uses. It is ...
01/03/2022

Access the form here: www.njoag.gov/facialrecognition

As facial recognition technology improves, so have its uses. It is now being used in law enforcement to recognize and incarcerate criminals.

However, this technology can quickly become dangerous if put in the wrong hands. The NJ Attorney General's office is now working to implement this new technology in the safest and most efficient way possible.

Express your opinions on the matter via the form above. Do you approve of this technology? What changes should be made to its regulation?

Ultimately, the digital age encompasses everything, even the traditional religious America.Feeling anxious? Struggling w...
27/01/2022

Ultimately, the digital age encompasses everything, even the traditional religious America.

Feeling anxious? Struggling with problems at home? Perhaps God can help.

This is the “business” model churches and other religious institutions have followed to spread their message. They offer a place for people to share their problems and get advice. But now, churches are beginning to use a new tool: the internet.

With attendance declining, churches are looking to alternative methods to keep people engaged. To introduce churches to the digital age, Gloo, a data analytics company, has created services to connect individuals with churches across the country via search engines like Google.

Gloo contracts 3rd party services to get information about people and their online presence. For example, if a person indicates that they are in financial distress, prone to drug use, or depressed, Gloo places an ad for a webpage on Google that connects them with a nearby church.

Thirty thousand churches have registered for Gloo’s services, which makes up 10% of all churches nationwide. Gloo has stated that they have stopped using terms related to mental health in their analysis and abide by California laws to respect people’s privacy.

But the issue isn’t one of privacy (although it could be). The point is that the digital age brings a comparative advantage that cannot be denied. Gloo provides churches access to a population that they wouldn’t have been able to reach by conventional measures. Churches that don’t use Gloo are put at a disadvantage.

Collecting data for analytics is the norm and making this a safe practice is ever more important. This may come in the form of regulation or more ethical company practices.

07/01/2022

emojify.info lets you play around with emotion recognition technology in use today. The same AI technology that is used to guess your emotion is used to read your face as part of facial recognition technology. It’s not hard to fake emotions and trick the algorithm right? Emotion recognition technology is being used in more spaces now, even to make life-altering decisions. Should we proceed with caution?

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Technocapitalism describes how our way of life, living standards, and norms are completely dictated by technology.The ba...
31/12/2021

Technocapitalism describes how our way of life, living standards, and norms are completely dictated by technology.

The backbone of any country’s economy is fundamentally technological progress. While Moore’s Law describes the growth of microprocessors as exponential, it also reflects the rate of innovation, and consequently, the rate of change in society.

In today’s techno-capitalistic world, intellectual property, creativity, and innovation are more important than goods, labor, and resources. Middle-skilled labor is replaced by automation and the issue of brain-drain presents itself as there is increased demand for high-skilled labor.

As technology drives GDP growth, we must ask ourselves whether the cost of constant economic growth is worth the millions of people it leaves behind, those labeled as “unskilled workers.” We must question whether automation should free humanity from work or shackle the most vulnerable in society to debt and poverty.

125 countries belonging to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons met last week in Geneva to discuss the future ...
30/12/2021

125 countries belonging to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons met last week in Geneva to discuss the future of warfare: one driven by killer robots.

Killer robots are defined as weapon systems that operate with little to no oversight, making decisions without human interference. But despite the technological promise, should machines, who have no passion, no empathy, no common sense, be given the authority to kill? In essence, how much do we trust machines?

The UN conference met last week to answer some of these questions as part of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. The convention is a set of rules that prohibit weapons that cause unnecessary harm, but there is no legislation guiding the use of autonomous weapons systems at the moment.

To the dismay of many activists and experts, the conference yielded little progress. The group of countries could not agree on any legislative governance.

The US, chief amongst the voices of opponents to new legislation at the conference, has already invested billions into AI and robotic technology in partnership with notable defense contractors.

It seems killer robots will be here to stay and the finger behind the trigger is cold-blooded, made of steel.

28/08/2021

Understanding that everything we do is monitored and used to understand who we are, puts into perspective the effects of data extraction. We are not the sum of our google searchers, so why should we be treated as such?

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Are AI drones the future of warfare?Whether or not a war should be fought is a dilemma on its own, but opponents to cont...
23/08/2021

Are AI drones the future of warfare?

Whether or not a war should be fought is a dilemma on its own, but opponents to continuing armed conflict argue that the human cost is not justified: the lives lost are too many. With AI drones, this argument becomes obsolete.

Currently, AI drones are only able to assist human manned fighter planes and carry out reconnaissance. But let’s imagine a scenario where these AI drones became fully autonomous.

You might envision a space-race type scenario where countries around the world will pour more and more resources into making the most advanced fighter planes imaginable. Money might be wasted, but human loss would be close to none.

Our take: Perhaps this move towards autonomous weapons will remove the need for war entirely. We just don’t know yet.

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Artificial intelligence is evolving, but we still can’t peer into their minds. In 2019, a group of students studying at ...
22/08/2021

Artificial intelligence is evolving, but we still can’t peer into their minds.

In 2019, a group of students studying at a university in China created an AI project where AI-controlled wolves had to catch virtual sheep. The wolves had to dodge boulders in their path and catch their prey as quickly as they could to earn more points. Simple enough, right?

But instead of catching the sheep, the AI wolves committed su***de by running into the boulders, since this actually earned them more points. Clearly, this model thought outside of the box, but to us, its mind is still a black-box. We cannot communicate with it like how we communicate with other humans. “Teaching” AI is not like teaching a child: there are some things computers just don’t understand. And “fixing” models is like building a robot with bubble gum: we don’t know how permanent of a solution it is.

Our take: This model was pretty simple, and later trials showed different results. But the fact remains that AI isn’t fully intelligent, and we don’t always know what’s going on inside its head.

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Imagine AR glasses that let you shop for anything that you looked at. Soon enough, this may be reality.Paypal has alread...
15/08/2021

Imagine AR glasses that let you shop for anything that you looked at. Soon enough, this may be reality.

Paypal has already released a patent for them. Using these glasses, you can glance at milk in the supermarket and the glasses will tell you its and competitors prices. It would make shopping effortless and revolutionize e-commerce, but it could also be used as a means of manipulation.

When you wear these glasses, there’s no difference between taking a walk outside and going online shopping. Everything around you becomes a product with a price tag, creating an eternal temptation to buy more and more stuff. Artificial Intelligence can generate ads made just for you, using the objects that you see and your emotional response to them. It would be neuro-marketing at its finest, pitting a person’s psychology against themselves so companies can sell their products.

Our take: AR glasses may be futuristic and convenient, but they also have the ability to warp reality as we know it.

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