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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

On “Going Back”

“We can’t go back” is a favorite rejoinder to technoskeptics. We just don’t think it’s a compelling argument for much of anything.

By Mo Lotman | May 10, 2017 | Automation, Economics, Philosophy, Privacy, Society, Well-Being | Brexit, El Sisi, Income Inequality, Kevin Kelly, Lionel Shriver, Monopoly, Permaculture, Progress, Slavery, Smoking, Stasi, Stephen Hawking, Techno-utopians, Technological Determinism, Wisdom, WWII

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