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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]