The ethics behind machine learning and AI – surveillance, and governance
Today we’ll continue to think about AI and try to think through some of the ethics behind it.
Here are some topics being discussed:
Copyright, Opensource, Scraping
Competitive advantage – Regularity capture
Security and Safety (Planet)
Singularity
Unintended Consequences/Paperclip problem
Labor/Employment
Governance
Algorithmic Bias / surveillance
More?
Cory Doctrow – How to think about Scraping
Mustafa Suleyman & Yuval Noah Harari -FULL DEBATE- What does the AI revolution mean for our future? Economist Video
Last year Biden issued a non binding Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
A European approach to artificial intelligence
Midterm Project: The Life Span of a Technological Object
Loosely based on Kate Crawford’s Anatomy of an AI System , your midterm is a research project in which you create a multi-modular project such as a web site, video essay or podcast that provides a “map of a technological object” of your choice. Trace its production and development as you consider its environmental sustainability, the physical labor and digital labor practices involved in its development, and its ethical relationship to the end user and society at large.
Deliverables include: the media project and a written component
Consider the three major parts of the objects life span:
- Production/materials/labor/
- User experience/ethical relationship to user and society/digital rights/historical roots/evolution of object/etc.
- Sustainability/recycling/right to repair/
Homework
- Please come up with an idea for your midterm project: The Life Span of a Technological Object. Write a paragraph about your idea and why you are choosing and what the media modular you plan on making.
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
By Kate Crawford 1 and Vladan Joler 2
(2018)
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