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Chatter Episode 50 – Dr Birgit Schippers on Big Tech, Mass Surveillance, and the Power of AI

Josh Hamilton7 years ago6 years ago01 mins

Dr Birgit Schippers of St. Marys University College Belfast was our guest on today’s show. We discussed the role out of facial recognition software, how effective AI can actually be at understanding our personalities, and the unaccountability of tech companies. Resources https://www.stmarys-belfast.ac.uk/general/staff.asp?nq=1&mode=detail&staffid=55 http://smucb.academia.edu/BirgitSchippers Music by Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim If you enjoyed what you read…

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Chatter Episode 28 – Carrick Flynn on Legislating For Artificial Intelligence

Josh Hamilton9 years ago7 years ago02 mins

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 AI for…

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Russia, Bots, and Brexit

Josh Hamilton9 years ago8 years ago07 mins

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, and elections…

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Chatter Episode 23 – Francesca Lake On Open Access Journals and The Future of Scientific Research

Josh Hamilton9 years ago7 years ago02 mins

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 open source…

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How Tech Giants Are Tackling Bots and Misinformation

Josh Hamilton9 years ago9 years ago09 mins

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, UK, Germany,…

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Revolution Without Revolution

Josh Hamilton9 years ago08 mins

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 since the…

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The Great Game Is Escalating — And Nobody’s Ready

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Chatter Episode 28 – Carrick Flynn on Legislating For Artificial Intelligence

Chatter Episode 23 – Francesca Lake On Open Access Journals and The Future of Scientific Research

Revolution Without Revolution

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