The following are notes ahead of a panel discussion this afternoon, where we will discuss the need for a legal structure for digital persons in the wake of the general discussion of artificial intelligence. The idea of a digital assistant seems to suggest a world in which we will see new legal actors. These actors will buy,… Fortsätt läsa Digital legal persons? Fragments (Man / Machine XI and Identity / Privacy III)
Månad: november 2018
The free will to make slightly worse choices ( Man / Machine XI)
In his chapter on intelectronics, his word for what most closely resembles artificial intelligence, Stanislaw Lem suggests an insidious way in which the machine could take over. It would not be, he says, because it wants to terrorize us, but more likely because it will try to be helpful. Lem develops the idea of the… Fortsätt läsa The free will to make slightly worse choices ( Man / Machine XI)
Stanislaw Lem, Herbert Simon and artificial intelligence as broad social technology project (Man / Machine X)
Why do we develop artificial intelligence? Is it merely because of an almost faustian curiosity? Is it because of an innate megalomania that suggests that we could, if we want to, become gods? The debate today is ripe with examples of risks and dangers, but the argument for the development of this technology is curiously… Fortsätt läsa Stanislaw Lem, Herbert Simon and artificial intelligence as broad social technology project (Man / Machine X)