When We Converse with the Alien Intelligence of Machines
Machine intelligence will teach us to expand our understanding of intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
Stanford Social Innovation Review article on mission-driven artificial intelligence aimed at solving societal and ecological challenges.
Technology and the Distribution of Wealth
Technology plays two critical roles in the distribution of wealth, cutting jobs and income from below, while concentrating profits for investors from above.
Two Types of Fairness – and Why It’s Easy to Argue About
It’s easy to argue about fairness – because our society operates with two very different definitions of the word.
How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
Automated Self-Service is Taking Over. Here’s How it Happened.
The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.
A Handy Way to Think About Machine Learning
A (relatively) simple explanation of machine learning.
Community Saves the World
A new breed of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Communities could be how we save the world.
Technology Ecology: Connections that Sculpt Our World
Technology ecology focuses on technology’s relationships with other technologies, with people, with organizations and with the planet.