Ben Green

Podcast #34: Ben Green on Smart Enough Cities

Data technology researcher and author Ben Green punctures the myth of the smart city.

By Mo Lotman | August 8, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Community, Culture, Government, Human Rights, Law, Podcasts, Policing, Politics, Prediction, Privacy, Safety, Security, Society, Transportation | Alphabet, Autonomous Vehicles, Bike Share, Boston, Branding, Cameras, Cities, City Services, Civic Engagement, Civic Pride, Complexity, Data Gathering, Data Monetization, Democracy, Dynamic Systems, Efficiency, Engineering, Google, License Plate Readers, Mixed-Use, Optimization, Predictive Policing, Public Policy, Public Space, Racism, Reductionism, Richness, Seattle, Sensors, Sidewalk Labs, Smart Cities, Smart Technology, Social Justice, Street Life, surveillance, Surveillance Oversight Ordinances, Tech Goggles, Traffic, Transportation, Urban Design

Driverless Car

The Challenge of Driverless Cars Goes Far Beyond Safety

While engineers devise systems narrowly focused on safety, no one is grappling with the moral and enivornmental quandaries driverless cars pose.

By Samantha Maxwell | January 16, 2019 | Automation, Community, Environment, Ethics, Safety, Transportation | Autonomous Vehicles, Cities, Climate Change, Community, Driverless Cars, Emissions, Morality, Safety, Sprawl, Walkability

Huei Peng

Podcast #20: Huei Peng and Driverless Cars

A tour of autonomous vehicle testing track Mcity with director Huei Peng answers many questions, and raises others.

By Mo Lotman | September 26, 2018 | Automation, Environment, Government, Podcasts, Privacy, Safety, Society, Transportation | Ann Arbor, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Chauffeur, Commerce, Convenience, Driverless Cars, Driving, Efficiency, Engineering, Environment, Ford, GM, Greg McGuire, Higher Education, Lidar, Mcity, Mileage, Research, surveillance, Toyota, Uber, University of Michigan

Tomaso Poggio

Podcast #16: Tomaso Poggio on the State of AI

After a long so-called winter, artificial intelligence has recently made amazing gains. Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, explains why this success is still a long way from the dystopian fears of robot overlords, but that the threat to jobs is real.

By Mo Lotman | February 14, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Employment, Ethics, Podcasts, Society | Academia, AI, AI Winter, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Back Propagation, Center for Brains Minds & Machines, China, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, Deep Learning, Doctors, Economy, Facial Recognition, Google, Job Loss, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Meaning, Microsoft, MIT, Mobileye, National Science Foundation, Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Purpose, self-driving cars, surveillance, Truck Drivers

Robot AI Job Line

Speeding Towards a Potential AI Jobocalypse, Government is on Autopilot

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.

By Art Keller | June 21, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Economics, Employment, Government, Politics | AI, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Autonomous Vehicles, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Class Warfare, Conflict, Elon Musk, Employment, Germany, High-Tech, Inequality, Job Losses, Labor, Lifelong Learning, Manufacturing, Obama, Office of Science and Technology Policy, OSTP, Retraining, Robots, Social Safety Net, Stephen Hawking, Trump, Unemployment, White House

2016, The Year in Review

A look back at the biggest technology-related stories of 2016.

By Mo Lotman | January 4, 2017 | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Cognition, Culture, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Health, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, Policing, Politics, Privacy, Society, Transportation | AI, Amazon, Analog, Antibacterial Soap, Apple, Augmented Reality, Autonomous Vehicles, Black Lives Matter, Brain Training, Cancer, Comet Ping Pong, Cryogenics, Data Breach, DDOS, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC, Drone Delivery, Drones, Dyn, Encryption, Facebook Live, Fake News, FBI, FDA, Gawker, Genetic Engineering, Go, Google, Hacking, Hillary Clinton, Hulk Hogan, Internet of Things, iPhone, Lee Sedol, Live-Streaming, Lumosity, Mitocondrial Donation, music, Orwell, Peter Thiel, Philando Castile, Pokemon Go, Police Shootings, Politics, Records, Robots, Russia, San Bernardino, self-driving cars, Sex Tape, Spotify, surveillance, Terrorism, Tesla, Triclosan, Twitter, vinyl, Yahoo

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