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 […]
Why Ethical Robots Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All
The risks that a robot’s ethics might be compromised by unscrupulous actors raise doubts over the wisdom of embedding ethical decision making in real-world safety critical robots This week my […]
Optimization over Explanation
Maximizing the benefits of machine learning without sacrificing its intelligence Imagine your Aunt Ida is in an autonomous vehicle (AV) — a self-driving car — on a city street closed to human-driven vehicles. Imagine […]