Is Democracy Threatened by Chatbots?

Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated both in their ability to process language and gauge emotion. As social media increasingly influences our news and beliefs, this could be a big problem.

By Emily Ludolf | January 31, 2018 | Artificial Intelligence, Government, Journalism, Knowledge, Politics, Psychology, Security, Society | AI, Bias, Chatbots, Customer Service, Cyberbullying, Democracy, Elections, Fake News, Filter Bubble, Influence, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Natural Language Processing, News, NLP, Opinion, Oxford, Profiling, Propaganda, Psychiatry, Psychology, Russia, Social Media, Targeting, Tay, Therapy, Trolling, Twitter

Podcast #5: David Krakauer on Tech, Cognition, and Social Systems

David Krakauer is President and Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center, where he focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture. He sat down with The Technoskeptic to talk about the idea of complementary vs. competitive cognitive artifacts—that is, how technologies extend or supress our own capabilities.

By Art Keller | September 14, 2016 | Cognition, Podcasts, Society | Competitive Cognitive Artifacts, Complementary Cognitive Artifacts, Complexity Theory, Creativity, Cultural Change, Decision-Making, Evolution, Exponential Change, Idea Propogation, Intelligence, Machine Learning, Memory, Problem Solving, Understanding

Podcast #1: Lee Spector and the future of AI

Computer Scientist Lee Spector sits down with The Technoskeptic for a wide-ranging discussion about artificial intelligence, the dangers and benefits of machine learning, and what it means to be human.

By Mo Lotman | July 15, 2015 | Artificial Intelligence, Podcasts, Society | AI, Amazon, Automation, Climate Change, Consciousness, Evolutionary Computation, Lee Spector, Machine Learning, Netflix, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen Hawking, Stuart Armstrong, Subscriber