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MetaFilter post on "Making Kin with the Machines" by Jason Lewis @jaspernotwell, Noelani Arista @Noeolali, Suzanne Kite @kite_kite_ and Archer Pechawis. This excellent essay brings Indigenous epistemologies to bear on the AI question. metafilter.com/180600/AI-Indi…
2/ This is a great piece by John Basl @johnbasl & Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz: "AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals: We give mice and dogs ethical protections, so why not AIs? On the future conditions for robot rights." aeon.co/ideas/ais-shou…
3/ This is a great and fascinating essay by John Danaher @JohnDanaher on Aristotelian Friendship and Robotics: "The Philosophical Case for Robot Friendship" ...
4/ ... @JohnDanaher spoke a bit about it at the British Academy here: "Are we ready for robot relationships?"
@JohnDanaher & Alexis Elder @alexismelder discuss it at length in this podcast: "Friendship, Robots and Social Media" …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
@JohnDanaher & Alexis Elder @alexismelder discuss it at length in this podcast: "Friendship, Robots and Social Media" …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/08/episod…
5/ "The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity ... many of the researchers working in AI today believe that advanced AI systems, if deployed carelessly, could end all life on earth... So here’s... how AI might pose a catastrophic danger..."
7/ Here's the article quoted above: "The Limits of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning: We've been promised a revolution in how and why nearly everything happens. But the limits of modern artificial intelligence are closer than we think."wired.com/story/greedy-b…
8/ Any thread on AI needs some sci-fi, so here's "Hard Reset" by Deepak Chetty on @watchdust: "The dawn of artificially intelligent androids is upon us, and one man must choose between synthetic freedom and the future of humankind."
9/ Philosopher of consciousness David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I. "'There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World': We will develop new worlds and beings with powers greater than our own. How do we maximize them for good?" nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opi…
10/ There's more about David Chalmers and the Hard Problem of Consciousness in this episode of The Partially Examined Life @PartiallyExLife podcast with guest Gregory Miller @GregoryEMiller (who in turn is host of
@ThePanpsycast): partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/06/17/ep2…
@ThePanpsycast): partiallyexaminedlife.com/2019/06/17/ep2…
11/ "Sunspring" is a 2016 short film written by Benjamin, an LSTM RNN Artificial Intelligence built by Ross Goodwin @rossgoodwin. It's the first film written by AI. This article by Annalee Newitz @Annaleen has more info about it: arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06…
13/ "NoRo" is a great sci-fi short film about AI by Duncan Roe @DuncanRoe, via @watchdust: "Caitlin lives alone grieving her missing son. But an encounter with a stranger causes her to question her solitary world..."
14/ "The result is AI systems that alter the social fabric, reinforce societal stereotypes & further disadvantage those already at the bottom of the social hierarchy while we allude to insisting these systems as politically neutral under the guise of 'AI'".abebabirhane.wordpress.com/2019/07/10/the…
15/ Abeba Birhane @Abebab gives more context on her excellent piece above in this thread.
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