William Steele is an Irish-Mexican American. Born a military brat in Fort Carson, CO. Most of the focus of his post-secondary education and industry skills are in the realms of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Equity Securities Trading, International Business, Music Composition & Production, and Film. Will has just written a book about AI,…
Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Chatter Episode 28 – Carrick Flynn on Legislating For Artificial Intelligence
Carrick Flynn from The Future of Humanity Institute was our guest on today’s show. The Future of Humanity Institute is run by Nick Bostrom and Carrick is involved in their work on AI (Artificial Intelligence) governance and policy-making. Essentially, that means he is attempting to propose frameworks through which we could safely produce…
Russia, Bots, and Brexit
As Theresa May condemned Russian influence on both British and International politics via social media this week, we felt it was necessary to clarify what they have been accused of and what we know about alleged Russia activity on Twitter and Facebook in relation to the Brexit campaign, the most recent general election,…
Chatter Episode 23 – Francesca Lake On Open Access Journals and The Future of Scientific Research
Francesca Lake of Future Science Group was the guest on today’s show. She is the editor of their biomedical open access journal and was keen to talk to us about Open Access week that is taking place around the world this week! Open Access is the idea that all scientific journals should be…
How Tech Giants Are Tackling Bots and Misinformation
The idea that social media bots and misinformation could influence our political conversation isn’t a new concept. The phrase “election hacking” has been thrown around and misused by numerous news outlets and pundits to describe the use of bots and junk news on social media and their potential effects upon elections in the US,…
Revolution Without Revolution
We live in a broken system, that’s not to say it is beyond repair or utterly dysfunctional, but it does not work for the majority of people. We have massive wealth and income inequality here in the UK and even greater wealth and income inequality in the US. These problems have been exacerbated significantly…
