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"He believes that although technology can objectively decrease risk of a particular kind or make us feel less vulnerable in particular way, any technology that decreases some kind of risk also introduces new risks, thereby altering the ways in which we are at risk and experience vulnerability. Thus, rather than think of the human-technology dialectic as a process that makes humans less vulnerable, it is better conceptualized, he believes, as a process of transformation--a process that transforms human vulnerability."

Title: The Corporatization of AI is a Major Threat to Humanity Excerpt: This "editorial" article represents the personal views of the author, shaped by his 3 decades in the AI research community and 2 decades as an AI entrepreneur. It absolutely doe…

Paper from guys hailing from Basel and Zurich proposing new human rights in an age of applied neurotech.

"The one law of robotics: Humans must flourish"

"What is a human? What are social relations? Thinking about robotics and artificial intelligence is dealing with big philosophical questions. uni:view talked to Mark Coeckelbergh, philosopher of technology, about the ethics of robotics, his daily work and personal balance."

Whether you like Facebook or not, it's a major major force. What they do has consequences for who we are as homo sapiens.

'we'll begin to unpack the 10-year vision of a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for augmented reality (AR) glasses that can use the information you choose to share, to infer what you want to do, when you want to do it'

Article by Tristan Harris, the man who launched the Humane Technology project

Games saving humanity

by Renée DiResta, the Technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. "Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort, but artificial intelligence will take them to a whole new level"

Scoble's musing are as always interesting. He also provides a 'future signal' by referring to a patent by Apple for a wearable which potentially could warn you have COVID-19 or other diseases before you even have any obvious physical symptoms.

The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?