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    2019 May 06

    Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Technology I Tyranny I Transnational Advocacy

    5:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Wexner Room 102, 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA, 02138

    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21stCentury is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial...

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    2019 Oct 21

    Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: The Longevity Revolution & the Impact of Technology

    5:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Rubenstein 414AB

    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of...

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    2019 Oct 22

    Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter

    5:30pm to 6:45pm

    Location: 

    Wexner 434AB

    Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a new talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration from the title of Max Tegmark’s book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars, technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the ethical aspects of the long-term impact of...

    Read more about Towards Life 3.0 - Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century: Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter
    Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.
    Desmond Patton. 8/7/2019. “Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.” Vox.com. See full text.Abstract
    New article on Vox highlights the work of Desmond Patton, Technology and Human Rights Fellow.

    Desmond Patton, a Technology and AI fellow at the Carr Center, emphasized that current AI tools tend to identify the language of African American and Latinx people as gang-involved or otherwise threatening, but consistently miss the posts of white mass murderers.

    "I think technology is a tool, not the tool," said Patton. "Often we use it as an escape so as to not address critical solutions that need to come through policy. We have to pair tech with gun reform. Any effort that suggests we need to do them separately, I don’t think that would be a successful effort at all.”

    Read the full article here

    Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.
    Sigal Samuel. 8/7/2019. “Trump wants to “detect mass shooters before they strike.” It won’t work.” Vox.Abstract

    New article on Vox highlights the work of Desmond Patton, Technology and Human Rights Fellow.

    Patton, emphasized that current AI tools tend to identify the language of African American and Latinx people as gang-involved or otherwise threatening, but consistently miss the posts of white mass murderers.

    "I think technology is a tool, not the tool," said Patton. "Often we use it as an escape so as to not address critical solutions that need to come through policy. We have to pair tech with gun reform. Any effort that suggests we need to do them separately, I don’t think that would be a successful effort at all.”

    Read full article here. 

    Gianni

    Tyler Giannini

    Clinical Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
    Co-Director, International Human Rights Clinic

    Tyler Giannini is a Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of Harvard Law School's Human Rights Program and its International Human Rights Clinic....

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    VinRyan

    Vin Ryan

    Advisory Board Member
    Chair Emeritus
    Vin Ryan is Founder and Chairman of Schooner Capital, a firm which he started in 1971 and has managed for four decades. He serves as a Director of Iron... Read more about Vin Ryan
    Wake Up, Hapless Technology Users
    Kathryn Sikkink. 3/21/2018. “Wake Up, Hapless Technology Users.” The Boston Globe. Publisher's VersionAbstract
    Read this Op-Ed in the Boston Globe by Professor Kathryn Sikkink.

    "Wake up, users of technology! You are not just a hapless victim, but you too have obligations — along with, of course, the multiple obligations of governments and corporations. We all should know by now that our smartphones are little spy machines that we carry around in our pockets and our Facebook pages are open invitations for violations of privacy. They are usually benevolent spy machines, and certainly, indispensable ones, but spy machines nonetheless."
     

    Read the full Op-Ed here.

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