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Human & Machine

From Chalkboards to Chatbots: AI to the rescue in the classroom

While students are 20% of our population they are 100% of our future. Prince Ea Education is an essential aspect of human development, and its primary objective is to prepare individuals to meet the challenges of life by imparting knowledge, skills, and values. It can be thought of as the transmission of the values and […]

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Let’s Not Get Carried Away With Elon Musk’s Neuralink: It’s probably a bad idea

Elon Musk is known as an extravagant and highly entrepreneurial billionaire, responsible for ventures such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Hyperloop and Neuralink. The latter officially started off in the mid ’10s, being founded by Musk and several associates. At the start of the 20’s the company had grown to have close to 100 employees and was […]

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The Future of Pets is Artificial
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Beep Boop, Not Bark Bark: AI Pets are the Future

Whether you’re a dog, cat, or perhaps bird person, pets are often seen as significant members of the household. It is estimated that about half of the households in The Netherlands and approximately 70% of the households in America own one or multiple pets. Clearly, they are valued highly, and for good reason. However, there […]

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Man or Machine: What’s the Difference Anyway?

In the past decade, the growth of Artificial Intelligence within our society has been rapid and seamless. It seems as though until only very recently, with the introduction of the GDPR and scandals such as that of Cambridge Analytica, we have allowed with open arms the influx of AI in our daily lives, barely even […]

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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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Should You Feel Bad about Switching Off an Artificial Intelligence Agent?

Not for the moment. However, fast advancements in AI call for a renegotiation of life. Imagine a future in which Alexa has a face and a voice that allows you to interact, play games, order food, talk about your day or do anything else you might normally do with a friend. At what level would […]

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Protected: Artificial Superintelligence: Not just science-fiction, but also the potential (super) hero of humanity

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

Your future; a “modern” Athenian or a marionette?

Personal assistants, translation programs, automatic answers to emails, filtering spam, getting the best-suited recommendations on Netflix, this list can continue for as long as we can imagine. Artificial intelligence is already in many applications we use daily, and it is increasing with the day. The applications think with us; help us; and make our work […]

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