Tag Archives: Ethics

What Happens When You Submit a Paper on AI Ethics to an AI Conference?

Well, we won’t name the conference (yet)! But it takes place this month, it’s a fairly standard ‘digital communications’ affair, with this year’s focus on AI (although not exclusively).

So we submit a paper on AI Ethics …

What happens then?

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A New Futurism Tool: ESPELETIA

Over the decades, we’ve seen PEST extended to PESTLE to STEEPLED, but have we now got all the angles covered for practical 21st century futurism? Perhaps not.

We’ve used the STEEPLED model before several times on this site, with some success. It’s undoubtedly a useful tool. But it’s not perfect: it’s time to recognise its limitations and introduce something new.

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Well, Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned!

As predicted some time ago, ‘celebrities’ (to use the term in its loosest sense) are now selling their images for sex robots!  The newest addition may be particular familiar to certain US politicians …

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A Real “Marauder’s Map”?

This follows on from last month’s post, in which we discussed the possibility of a future Shazam for People service and extends it to the concept of a ‘universal tracking system’ or real-world Marauder’s Map

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So, just how feasible is it?

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