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2019-12-01

The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

  Which systems really deserve to be built? Which problems most need to be tackled? Who is best placed to build them? And who decides? We need genuine accountability mechanisms, external to companies and accessible to populations Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers. Exposés have […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, AI, Algorithms, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Institutional Innovation, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-01-18

Childhood’s End

The digital revolution isn’t over but has turned into something else Nations, alliances of nations, and national institutions are in decline, while a state perhaps best described as Oligarchia is on the ascent. George Dyson explains in this, the first Edge New Year’s Essay. GEORGE DYSON is the author of Turing’s Cathedral and Darwin Among the Machines. All revolutions come to an end, whether they […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / AI, Algorithm, Analogue, Collective Intelligence, Complexity, Control, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Out-of-Control Leave a Comment

2018-11-02

A moral map for AI cars – reveal that moral choices are not universal

The Moral Machine Experiment – Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles. How do different cultures value human life? To find out, researchers created a viral online experiment to gather data from millions of participants across the world. Some values generalised across cultures, but others came as a surprise. When a driver […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / AI, Biocultural Frames, Biocultural Frames for Values, Biocultural Gendering of Values, Ethical Logics, Moral Accounting, Moral Relationships, Paradox, Social Moral Chemistry, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2018-07-05

Basic Income, Job Guarantees, and Invisible Labor

This is a 22 min read about how we will value our values in the emerging Digital Environment This is a very preliminary sort of ramble, because my ideas are still in a pretty early stage, and I’m quite likely to be wrong about several things. But it’s good to explore these ideas publicly, hear […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / AI, Currency, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Future of Work, Universal Basic Income, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2018-06-30

The New Intelligence

Modern AI and the fundamental undoing of the scientific method The days of traditional, human-driven problem solving — developing a hypothesis, uncovering principles, and testing that hypothesis through deduction, logic, and experimentation — may be coming to an end. A confluence of factors (large data sets, step-change infrastructure, algorithms, and computational resources) are moving us toward an entirely new […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / AI, Algorithmic Intelligence, Digital Environment, Methodology, New Science, Paradigms Leave a Comment

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