6 big ethical questions about the future of AI
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Genevieve Bell |
TED Salon: Dell Technologies
• October 2020
Artificial intelligence is all around us ... and the future will only bring more of it. How can we ensure the AI systems we build are responsible, safe and sustainable? Ethical AI expert Genevieve Bell shares six framing questions to broaden our understanding of future technology -- and create the next generation of critical thinkers and doers.
Artificial intelligence is all around us ... and the future will only bring more of it. How can we ensure the AI systems we build are responsible, safe and sustainable? Ethical AI expert Genevieve Bell shares six framing questions to broaden our understanding of future technology -- and create the next generation of critical thinkers and doers.
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Genevieve Bell works at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.
Genevieve Bell | Boyer Lectures, 2017 | Watch
"Fast, Smart and Connected: What is it to be Human, and Australian, in a Digital World"
In 2017 I had the incredible honour to deliver the Boyer lectures. I grew up with the Boyer lectures! I don’t remember a time when they weren’t part of the conversation. This series was about how the digital world has become fast, smart and connected. I started to ask the hard and thorny questions about the nature of our humanness and how to build a digital world in which we want to live. This thinking kick-started the ambitious work of the 3A Institute to build a new branch of engineering for a safe, sustainable and responsible future.
Mark Pesce and Genevieve Bell | The Next Billion Seconds, 2017 | Listen
"1968: When the World Began -- Part One: THE PIVOT"
On the 9th of December in 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave the "Mother of All Demos" — the most important hour in the history of computing. I cowrote this four-episode podcast series with my friend Mark to explore the transformations that completely changed the relationship between humans and our machines. Start by listening to this first episode wherever you normally find your podcasts. Follow this link to explore some of the supplementary material on the blog.
Thomas Rid | Scribe, 2016 | Book
Rise of the Machines: the lost history of cybernetics
This is a great read if you are new to cybernetics. I recommend it to all our new starters at the 3A Institute! It’s an insightful history of cybernetics, pulling together threads in the history of technology from the invention of radar in World War II to cryptocurrencies and VR. It explores the fascinating characters and events that have shaped how we understand machines and humanity. And if you can find a copy, I really recommend reading this alongside Maurice Trask’s The Story of Cybernetics -– it has Vaucson’s digesting duck on the cover in happy orange!
Jasia Reichardt | Studio International Foundation, 2018 | Book
Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts
This book documents a fabulous exhibit that shares the same name. The curator Jasia Reichardt showed us a world where computers create with us!
Paul Dorish and Genevieve Bell | The MIT Press, 2014 | Book
Diving a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
Ok, so this is one of mine. I remember sketching out the plan for this book in between conference sessions while in Geneva. This is what happens when you bring a cultural anthropologist and computer scientist together to write a book. Diving a Digital Future explores the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research program and the contemporary practices that have emerged — both the motivating mythology and the everyday messiness of lived experience.
Ellen Broad | Melbourne University Press, 2018 | Book
Made by Humans: The AI Condition
Broad is a beautiful writer. She’s also a Senior Fellow working with my team at the 3A Institute — lucky us! Ellen puts humans squarely at the centre of the conversation about artificial intelligence. A thought-provoking examination of humans both as the source of data that machines access and interpret, and as the designers of AI. This book asks the big questions and delves into some hard conversations. A timely and important read. I reckon I said this on the back of the book when it came out, and I still firmly believe it.
Bruce Pascoe | Magabala Books, 2014 | Book
Dark Emu
This book gives us a different way into considering Australian history. You’ll also find an excellent review of Dark Emu in the New York Times.
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