It is easy to confuse someone moving backwards with someone who is taking a step back in-order to take a big jump forward.
Great Investigative Journalism: "The bad Jew - Arthur J. Finkelstein invented the perfidious campaign against George Soros. His closest associate tells for the first time how he went about it": https://m.bazonline.ch/articles/20981022 (unpaywalled) #Politics
"I wanted to change the world. That i did. I made it worse"
- Arthur Finkelstein, political advisor
"AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich" - interview with Lester Earnest , founder of the Stanford AI Lab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Earnest
Interview with Len Adleman, 2002 ACM Turing Award Recipient:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Adleman #Technology #Politics #Science
"Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave": http://txti.es/technorealism
"Broadening the View: Human Computer Interaction & Critical Theory": https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/experiencingcriticaltheory/ObristFuchs-BroadeningView.pdf #HCI #Politics
"PM interview question: CEO asks you to fill a school bus with tennis balls. How do you get buy-in from eng/design/legal/comms/ops/support for this pointless project with no real metrics? 🎾🚌" — @lenazun
Peculiar how much energy is going into questions around AI Agency & rights. Its comedic if you consider how little agency/rights we attribute to all forms of animals & plants around us, that arguably are much more intelligent, creative & essential than any piece of AI code.
An in-depth article about the legal implications of AI generated art:
https://itsartlaw.com/2018/11/26/welcome-to-the-machine/
First sun-dimming experiment will test a way to cool Earth:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07533-4 #ClimateChange #Politics
Selling property in latent spaces is a fascist agenda.
Generative IP is end stage madness.
"Military Amazon Smile". #Politics #Military #Technology
via https://twitter.com/WorkforceVA/status/1063163558480003072
My Politics as a Technologist: A Conversation With Terry Winograd and Alan Borning:
"Technology doesn't just happen. It has to be invented, funded and carried out by somebody. Those are all social choices, political choices" - Terry Winograd
"An Overview of National AI Strategies": https://medium.com/politics-ai/an-overview-of-national-ai-strategies-2a70ec6edfd #ML #Politics
The "Situationist International" social/art movement (1957-1972) was Subversive, Political & highly Semantical. Made me think about current so called "A.I Art", which is mostly void of those things - focused on PixelPorn. Why?
Guy Debord in 1967 on Machine Learning:
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2YeJpkrTOQ
"Report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine says that researchers often make 'inappropriate requests' for data manipulation or fraud to statisticians": http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2706170/researcher-requests-inappropriate-analysis-reporting-u-s-survey-consulting-biostatisticians
"1 In 4 Statisticians Say They Were Asked To Commit Scientific Fraud": https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/10/30/1-4-statisticians-say-they-were-asked-commit-scientific-fraud-13554 #Politics
"In Hungary, Latvia, & Greece, travelers will be given an automated lie-detection test—by an animated AI border agent. The system, called iBorderCtrl": https://gizmodo.com/an-ai-lie-detector-is-going-to-start-questioning-travel-1830126881 #ML #Politics
A case of AI hype gone horribly wrong. Using Fauxtomation to justify racist refugee policies.