{"id":92011,"date":"2021-10-01T05:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=92011"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:05:29","slug":"ai-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2021\/10\/ai-news.html","title":{"rendered":"AI News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A round up of recent technology news that intersects with my interests:<\/p>\n

There are calls for papers on source code criticism<\/a> and fiction and technology<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Schwitzgebel<\/a> has an important piece on his blog about creating AIs and giving them or not giving them the rights of persons. Here is a taste:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the dilemma:\u00a0If we create robots of disputable status \u2014 robots that\u00a0might or might not<\/i>\u00a0be deserving of rights similar to our own \u2014 then we risk moral catastrophe either way we go.<\/b>\u00a0 Either deny those robots full rights and risk perpetrating Holocausts\u2019 worth of moral wrongs against them, or give those robots full rights and risk sacrificing human interests or even human existence for the sake of mere non-conscious machines.<\/div>\n
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The answer to this dilemma is, in a way, simple:\u00a0Don\u2019t create machines of disputable moral status!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Either create only AI systems that we know in advance don\u2019t deserve such human-like rights, or go all the way and create AI systems that all reasonable people can agree do deserve such rights.\u00a0 (In\u00a0earlier work<\/a>, Mara Garza and I have called this the \u201cDesign Policy of the Excluded Middle<\/a>\u201c.)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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But realistically, if the technological opportunity is there, would humanity resist?\u00a0 Would governments and corporations universally agree that across this line we will not tread, because it\u2019s reasonably disputable whether a machine of this sort would deserve human-like rights?\u00a0 That seems optimistic.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Safiya Noble is one of the recipients of a MacArthur genius award<\/a><\/p>\n

There is an online exhibit called \u201cNot Your Family WhatsApp\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge decides AI cannot be an inventor<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Bird asks, How much social media is too much?<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a short story published in the magazine Fireside <\/em>that may be of interest:\u00a0 \u201cAlexa, Play Solidarity Forever\u201d by Audrey R. Hollis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Richard Beck drew connections between the writings of Blaise Pascal and parents letting their children use their iPad<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Instagram harmful to your wellbeing?<\/a> Instagram released its research on teens<\/a> for all to see. Facebook was not entirely up front<\/a> about the matter.<\/p>\n

The Beatitudes Revisited: Template for a Good Life<\/a><\/p>\n

Can Machines Have Common Sense?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n