{"id":64377,"date":"2019-06-03T05:45:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=64377"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:26:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T13:26:42","slug":"interview-in-latest-issue-of-the-indianapolis-business-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2019\/06\/interview-in-latest-issue-of-the-indianapolis-business-journal.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview in Latest Issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The latest issue of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibj.com\/articles\/73967-innovation-issue-artificial-intelligence-is-no-longer-science-fiction\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Indianapolis Business Journal<\/em><\/a> is dedicated to the theme of\u00a0<em>innovation<\/em>, and includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibj.com\/articles\/73969-innovation-issue-many-questions-fewer-answers-at-intersection-of-ai-ethics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an interview with me about the work that Ankur Gupta and I are doing on the subject of artificial wisdom<\/a>. In it I say things such as \u201cThere are some more present-day and near-future questions that I think fans of science fiction may be missing out on, that ethicists and computer scientists are not talking about quite as often as you might\u2019ve expected.\u201d I hope you find it interesting if you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibj.com\/articles\/73969-innovation-issue-many-questions-fewer-answers-at-intersection-of-ai-ethics\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">read the whole thing<\/a> (which requires free registration if you aren\u2019t a subscriber). I\u2019ll be particularly interested to hear what people think about the last tantalizing suggestion that I make.<\/p>\n<p>Of related interest:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EnF4HJC5aN\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/digitalwisdom\/2019\/05\/elements-of-digital-wisdom\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Elements of Digital Wisdom<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cElements of Digital Wisdom\u201d \u2014 Digital Wisdom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/digitalwisdom\/2019\/05\/elements-of-digital-wisdom\/embed\/#?secret=WmyniDk0Zl#?secret=EnF4HJC5aN\" data-secret=\"EnF4HJC5aN\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YXxQKJyh4K\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/digitalwisdom\/2019\/05\/human-futures-or-how-not-to-be-apocalyptic\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Human Futures: Or, How Not to Be Apocalyptic<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cHuman Futures: Or, How Not to Be Apocalyptic\u201d \u2014 Digital Wisdom\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/digitalwisdom\/2019\/05\/human-futures-or-how-not-to-be-apocalyptic\/embed\/#?secret=9vhztfuSUq#?secret=YXxQKJyh4K\" data-secret=\"YXxQKJyh4K\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/data-wisdom\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">From Data to Wisdom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/higher-ed-gamma\/higher-education%E2%80%99s-digital-transformation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Steve Mintz wrote<\/a> about the impact of technology on higher education, in a piece that is worth quoting from at length:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e must make sure that higher education\u2019s digital transformation doesn\u2019t come at the expense of the essence of a high quality educational experience: rich relationships with instructors and classmates, substantive feedback from a genuine expert, and a sense of membership and active participation in an academic community.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve learned what doesn\u2019t\u00a0work in a digital environment: Passive spectatorship, lack of structure and scaffolding, the absence of genuine interaction and personalized feedback, and services tailored for full-time residential students.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen horrors perpetrated in the names of access and affordability: Online programs that substitute \u201ccoaches\u201d and \u201cmentors\u201d for faculty, courses that consist of little more than crude roadmaps to various Internet resources, and classes that offer training or instruction, but little in the way of substantive discussion, debate, and critical thinking in collaboration with colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if higher education\u2019s digital transformation is to mark a genuine advance, it needs to leverage technologies to enhance the elements that make a higher education higher: communication, collaboration, constructive feedback, and active engagement in a shared experience of inquiry, analysis, interpretation, and problem solving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/stalinsmoustache.org\/2019\/05\/29\/is-it-time-to-dump-google\/<\/p>\n<p><em>New Scientist<\/em> featured a number of articles about a number of different technologies and their social implications \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24232321-400-forget-rampant-killer-robots-ais-real-danger-is-far-more-insidious\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=news\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AI<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2204978-deepminds-ai-gamer-is-a-better-teammate-than-human-players\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=news\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DeepMind<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2204426-the-backlash-against-face-recognition-has-begun-but-who-will-win\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=news\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">facial recognition<\/a> in particular. I particularly like this phrase from the first article by Analee Newitz: \u201d The only way\u00a0we can prevent the AI apocalypse, such as it is, will be to debug ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/steam-not-stem-why-scientists-need-arts-training-89788\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Why scientists need arts training<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.tor.com\/2019\/05\/31\/better-science-fiction-through-actual-science\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/technology-and-learning\/reading-lost-gutenberg-and-giving-paper-books\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">On shifting entirely to digital books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colleen-morgan.com\/2019\/05\/21\/6-reasons-i-quit-social-media-and-why-im-sort-of-back-on-it\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colleen Morgan left social media, only to return to it recently, and in a blog post she explains why<\/a>. Meanwhile an article she wrote about cyborgs and archaeology led <a href=\"https:\/\/mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/19\/cyborgs-and-octavia-butler\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bill Caraher to write about Octavia Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Religious Studies Project featured two pieces about video games and religion:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bnWlehoNRw\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.religiousstudiesproject.com\/podcast\/science-fiction-video-games-and-religion\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Science Fiction, Video Games, and Religion<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cScience Fiction, Video Games, and Religion\u201d \u2014 The Religious Studies Project\" src=\"https:\/\/www.religiousstudiesproject.com\/podcast\/science-fiction-video-games-and-religion\/embed\/#?secret=NWEhF0PnnW#?secret=bnWlehoNRw\" data-secret=\"bnWlehoNRw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.religiousstudiesproject.com\/2019\/05\/30\/navigating-the-religious-worlds-of-science-fiction-and-video-games\/<\/p>\n<p>Lots as always from the Tech Edvocate:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/why-people-matter-more-than-algorithms\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/technology-collaboration-results-in-improved-success\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/harnassing-edtechs-disruptive-power\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/why-do-homework-when-you-can-make-a-robot-do-it\/<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.thetechedvocate.org\/could-artificial-intelligence-automate-student-note-taking\/<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qSDXtz073T\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2019\/06\/ai-uses-images-and-omics-to-decode-cancer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AI Uses Images and Omics to Decode Cancer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cAI Uses Images and Omics to Decode Cancer\u201d \u2014 3 Quarks Daily\" src=\"https:\/\/3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2019\/06\/ai-uses-images-and-omics-to-decode-cancer.html\/embed#?secret=FEb0Yd33bC#?secret=qSDXtz073T\" data-secret=\"qSDXtz073T\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And in\u00a0<em>First Monday <\/em>there were articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/9318\/7809\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">collaborative web annotation<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/9180\/7808\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">open resources and courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the\u00a0Indianapolis Business Journal is dedicated to the theme of\u00a0innovation, and includes an interview with me about the work that Ankur Gupta and I are doing on the subject of artificial wisdom. 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