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Is AI a job killer? What does history say?

February 26, 2023 by Kurt Cobb

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now the focus of the most recent automation-is-a-job-killer stories. History suggests an alternate narrative.

Categories Economy, Economy featured, Featured Tags artificial intelligence, robots Leave a comment

‘Pre-crime’ software and the limits of AI

September 27, 2021September 26, 2021 by Kurt Cobb

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly hoovering up data from social media, online shopping sites, and various other online sources to track suspects and to ‘predict’ crime and unrest. The industry providing the software has every incentive to write code that will exaggerate the threats.

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When software rules the world

June 23, 2019 by Kurt Cobb

More and more of our daily routine is being turned over to software. Is that wise in every case? Is there a limit to how much power we should give to software over us?

Categories Society Tags artificial intelligence, computers 1 Comment

“Falter”: In New Book, Bill McKibben Asks If the Human Game Has Begun to Play Itself Out

April 18, 2019 by Amy Goodman

Thirty years ago, in 1989, Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book about climate change for a general audience. He has just published a new book; it’s titled Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Categories Energy, Environment, Society Tags American politics, artificial intelligence, climate change activism, genetic engineering 4 Comments

Artificial intelligence and the limits of the machine model

December 17, 2018December 16, 2018 by Kurt Cobb

If we reduce all of our efforts at addressing our problems to language a machine can understand, we will get machine solutions. What we need, however, are solutions that come from our deep connections to this planet as beings of this planet, connections that no machine will ever fathom.

Categories Environment, Environment featured, Society Tags AI, artificial intelligence 4 Comments

The Singularity is Already Here – It Is the Market

December 3, 2018 by Gunnar Rundgren

The market economy exhibits most of the traits of the much hyped – and feared – singularity, where an artificial intelligence takes over the show and humans are enslaved.

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Driverless cars and bodiless brains

March 25, 2018 by Kurt Cobb

The death of a pedestrian during a test drive of a driverless vehicle calls into question not just the technology—which didn’t seem to detect the pedestrian crossing a busy roadway and therefore didn’t brake or swerve—but also the notion that driving is nothing more than a set of instructions that can be carried out by a machine.

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