Four Internets offers a revelatory new approach for conceptualizing the
Internet and understanding the sometimes rival values that drive its
governance and stability. It unravels how tensions between the models play out
across politics, economics, and technology, ultimately debating whether these
models can continue to co-exist-or what might happen if any fall away.
How smart machines are transforming us all -- and what we should do about it. The smart-machines revolution is re-shaping our lives and our societies. Here, Nigel Shadbolt, one of Britain's leading authorities on artificial intelligence, and Roger Hampson dispel terror, confusion, and misconception. They argue that it is human stupidity, not artificial intelligence, that should concern us. Lucid, well-informed, and deeply human, The Digital Apeoffers a unique approach to some of the biggest questions about our future.
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness this extraordinary technology to empower rather than oppress? Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics--sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, versatile general intelligence. However, Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue, if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.
A comprehensive, rigorous, multidisciplinary analysis of privacy debates,
organised around a framework for understanding the different questions and
perspectives of antagonists. -- .
This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK, in May 1996. The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The volume is organized in sections on theoretical and general issues, eliciting knowledge from textual or other sources, data-mining, group elicitation, and planning.
A startling expose of the surveillance state we didn't even know existed: from
CCTVs to blogging, from cookies to RFID tags, we are watched more than ever
before.
Blamed for the disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags,
globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason,
equality, and the end of arbitrary rule. This book traverses these conflicts,
presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of
the Enlightenment.