Pursuing big, unrealistic dreams can distract from real scientific progress. It’s time for AI research to focus on restoring and expanding human control and responsibility.
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Robots are not yet as good as humans at working with other humans or even working with other robots.
Intimacy with robots is closer than you think, and cities are already fighting the advent of sexbot brothels. Yet society has barely begun to explore their implications.
Bee brains contain less than one million neurons. Despite this, new research shows the honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths, including addition and subtraction.
For decades, advertisers and marketers struggled to predict the consumption of leisure products such as movies and books. Now, big data reveals how people really spend their leisure time.
We’re on the road to developing artificial intelligence systems that will be able to do tasks beyond those they were designed for. But will we be able to control them?
Can we really expect vehicles to make the moral decisions we can’t?
Decades of psychological research suggests humans are rather irrational. But a new approach, borrowing an idea from artificial intelligence, challenges this notion.
Scientists are working on technology to analyse and advise your attempts to learn sign language.
Combining quantum computing with neural networks could produce AI that can make very complex decisions quickly.
Three-quarters of insurance executives believe artificial intelligence will revolutionise the industry within a few years. It promises lower premiums, but brings ethical risks too.
A new study shows that facial recognition software assumes that black faces are angrier than white faces, even when they’re smiling.
Beware of the blind use of artificial intelligence: used as a “magic wand”, for example in an autonomous car, it presents risks.
Some believe that including AI in childbirth could save lives and taxpayers’ money.
By looking closely at traits like wing feathers and spot patterns, a computer scientist trained an algorithm to recognize individual woodpeckers.
What do the Carlos Ghosn scandal, the rising power of algorithms and the “gilets jaunes” have in common? The need to extend the spatial and temporal definitions of responsibility.
The Montréal Declaration calls for the responsible development of artificial intelligence. A world expert explains why scientists must choose how their expertise will benefit society.
Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
A new virtual campus tour project in North Carolina could change the way students in rural or otherwise remote areas are able to ‘see’ prospective colleges without ever leaving their high schools.
It’s easy to get excited about the potential for robots to help care for the sick, injured and elderly, but we need the right regulations in place to deal with issues as they emerge.
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
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Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication & Digital Media, RMIT University
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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
