Technology evolves, but not quite like biology. We humans generate supply and demand for innovation, and that creates technological change. The relationship is complicated; it’s true that humans do use technology, but technology also uses us. You could say the human economy is cultivating a new order of intelligence on the planet.
We live in a time of truly historical changes in humanity's relationship with technology, as we stand before a new era of intelligent machines. Humans are now facing difficult and extremely nuanced questions about our relationship with machines, as we scratch our collective heads, puzzling over the emerging new partnership between Humanity and Machine. One of the core themes of the "Intelligent Machines and Us" section of the Vital Edge is that the essential nature of this partnership is the formation of a new container for humanity's collective intelligence.
Reading Time: 1 minuteStanford Social Innovation Review article on mission-driven artificial intelligence aimed at solving societal and ecological challenges.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is the right way to tax a robot? A robot tax isn't the same as a tax on human labor. Here's why it's more complicated than that.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesThe future of knowledge will be a synthesis of human and machine collaboration, coordinated through organizations, much as today. Any Singularity we may one day experience will, therefore, be shared: the collective destiny of intelligence.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe unpredictable nature of technology, the blurring boundaries of the workplace, oh, and why you are a fish.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesPsycho AI, emotional machines, AI that can smell, and loss of control over our time and the rise of meaningless work.
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Reading Time: 1 minuteKnowledge workers vs information workers and the rights of artificial intelligence.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe time well-spent movement, "ethnicity recognition" software causes a stir, facial recognition software for policing, and an alternative Spotify that treats musicians more fairly.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesA history of Artificial Intelligence, algorithms reinvent the fashion industry, "behavioral sequencing" brought to you by Google, smart classroom behavior management systems, and robots loading Chinese container ships.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAI and the Vatican's secrets, Big Data becomes Big Indicators, Google's uncanny Duplex AI schedules a haircut, "Digital Well-Being" and AI transparency.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesBrain-scanning as corporate and government control, accounting for cloud computing, corporate adoption of AI and the story of Ada Lovelace.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe future of AI, the stupidity of robot personhood, the dangers of a high-tech surveillance state, and automating the construction industry.
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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week: Basic Income, technological unemployment, and long-term investing.
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The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt The Marriage of Humanity and Machines
