What Public Discourse Gets Wrong About Social Media Misinformation
In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on the power of the “social…
Category: Technology
A Famous Professor’s AI Brain
In all my conversations with ChatGPT, I’ve tried to push the chatbot into revealing what I would call a personality.…
We Need to Reduce Killer Military AIs Bias Immediately
Observers are increasingly sounding the alarm about artificial intelligence-driven military decision-making systems (AIMDS). AIMDS are instruments that employ AI methods…
AI Calls Its Masters to Order
We return for a final time to the controversial interview with Eric Schmidt. The highlight of this talk occurred when…
Is Amorality the Ultimate Superintelligence?
In this month of September, “Outside the Box” shifted its focus to the strategic, economic and cultural side of artificial…
Will AI’s Masters Know How to Collaborate?
Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. Most often it remains invisible. Don’t believe me? An article we published last week,…
Is It Best When You Accept There’s No Free Will?
Determined, a new book by renowned Stanford University professor of primate behavior and neuroscience Robert M. Sapolsky, has catapulted the…
Do You Think AI’s Full of Schmidt?
AI is an increasingly visible feature of our environment. It has even achieved the status of an artificial culture. As…
Tech Should Be Shared, Not Protected: Towards Democratic Digital Governance
The foundation of human civilization is agriculture. It was organized agriculture that allowed our nomadic forebears to settle down and…
The Colorful, Toxic Economics and Epidemiology of “Baby Media”
If you think social media is bad for teenagers, imagine what so-called “baby media” does to babies. These colorful videos…