Book Review: Re-Engineering Humanity
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger warn that real freedom of will and human agency will require the ability to be “off.”
Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger warn that real freedom of will and human agency will require the ability to be “off.”
Counter to its positive mythology, Google manipulates search results to suit its own corporate purposes, quashing free access to information on the Web.
A review of tech and social critic Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Team Human.
The hows and whys of the decisions of machine-learning algorithms are increasingly opaque, even to their programmers. That makes laws and norms increasingly difficult to apply.
When Spotify’s music algorithms lead one writer to a band he can’t stand that he loves, he wonders about who’s programming who.
Mathematician Cathy O’Neil shares her insider’s look at how algorithms are gaming our world, with terrible consequences for those who can least afford them.
A recent discussion of the AI film Ex Machina brings up ideas about the desire for the perfectability of humans and our irresistable urge to play god.
New online lenders promise funds for previously-ignored groups. The catch? Borrowers have to allow them to spy on everything they do and everyone they associate with.
Facebook’s invasive attempts to identify suicidal individuals, while collecting revenue from advertisers targeting them, may do more harm than good.
A White House paper on AI betrays a stunning naivte about potential economic fallout, but few in government are interested in even acknowledging the issue.