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Washington Post

UN report: Technologies can help lives but boost inequality

A UN report says new technologies from artificial intelligence to gene editing hold immense potential to improve people’s lives —…
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“A human rights-based frame could provide those developing AI with the aspirational, normative, and legal guidance to uphold human dignity and the inherent worth of every individual regardless of country or jurisdiction.”

Data & Society

Governing Artificial Intelligence

Report by Mark Latonero, Data & Society
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Michael Grossman Tweet Idea:

Impactful statement from former Facebook product manager Justin Rosentsein:

"technology is a powerful tool for helping us collaborate toward our highest goals; when we don’t, we relinquish control of ourselves, and potentially our democracies" #socialmedia or #factr (we don't have enough characters for more than one)

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/14/active-vs-passive-social-media/

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The Governance Lab @ NYU

To turn the open data revolution from idea to reality, we need more…

Stefaan Verhulst at apolitical: “The idea that we are living in a data age — one characterised by unprecedented amounts of…
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"At the time of the acquisition of WhatsApp, Zuckerberg had assured Acton and Koum that he wouldn’t share its user data with other applications. Facebook told the European Commission, which approved the merger, that it had no way to match Facebook profiles with WhatsApp user IDs. Then, simply by matching phone numbers, it did just that. Pooling the data let Facebook recommend that WhatsApp users’ contacts become their Facebook friends. It also allowed it to monetize WhatsApp users by enabling advertisers to target them on Facebook. In 2017 the European Commission fined Facebook $122 million for its “misleading” statements about the takeover."

The Autocracy App

Facebook is a company that has lost control—not of its business, which has suffered remarkably little from its series of…
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Jaron Lanier: "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is through a third person who wishes to manipulate them."

ted.com

How we need to remake the internet

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could…
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This might be a less serious tweet...
Quartz

These were Stephen Hawking's last bold predictions on AI,…

The late physicist Stephen Hawking’s last writings predict that a breed of superhumans could take over, having used genetic…
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Diplomatic Courier

The Future of AI Governance

Over the course of seven months, The Future Society collected data concerning the governance of AI from thousands of…
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Michael Grossman Tweet: #JaronLanier outlining the pitfalls of advertiser backed communication "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is through a third person who wishes to manipulate them." #Factr #AdFree

ted.com

Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could…
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TechCrunch

The difference between good and bad Facebooking

"Social media" is a clumsy term that entangles enriching social interaction with mindless media consumption. It's a double-edged…
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