Machine Learning, Deep Fakes, and the Threat of an Artificially Intelligent Hate-Bot Fake news isn’t new. More than a century ago, newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer helped stir up enthusiasm for war against Spain by hyping the dubious claim that Spanish agents had used explosives to sink the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. The cry of “Remember James D. Miller 4 Nov 2021 · 6 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible. Pedro Domingos 27 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now. James D. Miller 3 Dec 2020 · 11 min read
What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers. Cameron Harwick 3 Aug 2020 · 10 min read
Plenty of Room for AI-nxiety Things change once we leave the world of infallible humans who can create a perfectly benevolent general intelligence. Christopher Reuenthal 4 Jan 2018 · 10 min read
Rational AI-nxiety: A Counter-Argument Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution. Anna Marieta Moise 21 Dec 2017 · 11 min read
Irrational AI-nxiety Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy. Edward Clint 14 Dec 2017 · 9 min read
