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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

Peeking Behind the AI Curtain: Navigating the Transparency Trap

Who will stand behind AI when we can no longer be sure of the intent behind the algorithms? Transparency, by definition, is the ease to perceive or detect something, whereas, in the context of Artificial Intelligence, it is referred to as explainable AI, this relates to humans being able to perceive the amount of testing […]

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Human & Machine

The ethical and social implications of creating conscious AI: Why we should grant them rights.

Agnes Admiraal & Nikki Moolhuijsen IntroductionThe world of AI has yielded many different types of highly intelligent algorithms, resulting in more humanoid AI. Some futurists (Kharpal, 2018) believe that machines will become more intelligent than humans within the next century. Thus far, what has distinguished us from these machines is our consciousness, however, this may […]

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Power & Democracy

Big Brother is watching you: How Artificial Intelligence will usher in a Orwellian future

Every minute we produce hundreds of thousands of online searches. These contain information that reveals how we feel and think. It is estimated that in 10 years time there will be more than 150 billion networked measuring sensors, with the growing population, this means the amount of data will double every 12 hours. Despite this […]

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Power & Democracy

The advantages of Deepfakes greatly outweigh their disadvantages… Here’s why.

In April 2021 the Dutch Parliament video called with a staff member of Aleksej Navalny. Although, that was what the parliamentarians thought they did. Within a matter of time it turned out that the Parliament had been fooled. Now you might wonder; how could a professional organization such as the Dutch Parliament be so stupid? […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

Freedoomed: How AI can eventually take away our freedom

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”, according to Arthur C. Clarke. Opinions on artificial intelligence (AI) differ: some indeed describe it as magical, whereas others remain more skeptical. This skepticism can almost sound like a bad science fiction movie: “AI will take over the world and humans will lose all their power!” While […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy War & Peace

“Is AI making military harmful and overpowered?”

Introduction The rising demand in the defense sector of any government in the world is the incorporation and deployment of Intelligent Systems in the battlefield and in general surveillance. This is to reduce manual involvement and empty battlefields of human combatants. Although Artificial Intelligence has a wide range of algorithms to adapt to the specific […]

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Don’t Let the Industry Take Care of AI Ethics

On January 9, 2020, Robert Julian-Borchak Williams was called by the Detroit Police Department with the request to turn himself in. Williams assumed this was a silly joke, but an hour later the police showed up at his house to arrest him in front of his wife and children. After spending a night in jail, […]

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Human & Machine Power & Democracy Uncategorized

The game of life, obey the rules or be banned from society

Game over. You have run out of life points (or credit score points). Envision, receiving a notification warning that states that you will be banned from society. Just as in a board game. One wrong move, you receive a card, and you end up landing on the Jail Space. It certainly seems science fiction as […]

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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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Human & Machine Power & Democracy

How can we avoid the AI apocalypse?

When it comes to artificial intelligence, there are many different viewpoints and interpretations of what AI is and what it entails. AI encompasses a wide spectrum of technologies. This has had a transformative effect on what we can do with computers today. AI is used widely in many sectors namely, Healthcare, Banking and Finance, Entertainment, […]

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