Algorithms

Human & Machine

Discrimination by Design: The Dangers of AI in Decision Making

Already at our doorstep! Artificial intelligence, it seems as if there does not go by a day without hearing or reading news about it. AI algorithms have received increasing attention in recent years, mainly because of the many advances that have been made in the field. AI algorithms can perform a growing range of tasks […]

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Power & Democracy

Poor AI literacy : A real threat to democracy

The term literacy originally refered to the ability to read and communicate using written language. In the past decades, literacy has been used with increasing flexibility to encompass a variety of skills and knowledge within many disciplines, from scientific literacy to digital literacy, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy. This article focuses on AI literacy, which […]

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Human & Machine

AI in Social Media Causes Mental Health Issues

We have all experienced it at one time or another, when we briefly needed to check something on our phone, opened our favorite app out of curiosity and got caught by an AI algorithm. Before you know it, you are an hour away, completely distracted from your original purpose for which you grabbed your phone in the first place. As this is a persistent problem these days, we will discuss the negative effects of AI in social media on one’s mental health in this article.

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Power & Democracy

Any system that has any form of Artificial Intelligence in its composition should pass several layers of legal and technical regulations

Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more pervasive and advanced. A lot of new impressive AIs have been published recently, such as ChatGPT, DALLE and Prime Voice AI. All these systems have one thing in common: they try to mimic human intelligence and in turn produce works that are as good as human creations or […]

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Human & Machine

The Invisible Pandemic: How AI in social media is diminishing the mental health of our children

“Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls” This is what the caption reads of an article in the Wall Street Journal which shocked the world in September of last year. In the article, internal research by Facebook (the parent company of Instagram) reveals that their social media app makes body image issues worse for […]

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War & Peace

The modern weapons of “mass” destruction: Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS)

Data is beautiful. Through the use of scientific methods and algorithms we extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Did you know that 90% of world’s data had been generated in the past two years? This explosion of information known as “Big Data” is completely transforming the world around us. Back in 1940 […]

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Human & Machine

FIRST THINGS FIRST : why we need to augment humans before creating a SuperIntelligence

Technological progress is not gonna stop We live in a liberal, global, and mostly capitalist society where progress in any kind of discipline is being made at an exponential rate. We should thus don’t focus on how to stop technological progress, because, as Yuval Harari claims, this is impossible. The question should instead be what […]

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Human & Machine

Why Artificial General Intelligence won’t be the end of Human Autonomy

When discussing Artificial Intelligence (AI) with those who are largely unfamiliar with the inner workings of AI, the idea that AI will bring about the end of humanity will inevitably come up. While this point is often brushed aside as paranoia by the discussion partner, there are experts in the field who also see the […]

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Human & Machine

Ban YouTube’s Recommendation Algorithm

Fight the spread of misinformation and increase users’ well-being Introduction YouTube is the world’s second-most visited website, right after its parent company, Google. For work or leisure time, YouTube is a great tool for online education, providing entertainment or seeking out information about other cultures or countries on the other side of the world. The […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

AI worsens world inequality, already a rising deadly issue

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken over most areas of interest today, and in the future, this technology will be more and more present in all the activities we do day by day. AI emerged as a reality with the technological revolution. This growing development of AI has come with both the technological advancement of the […]

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