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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?

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This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. This fuzziness can be challenging for any autonomous system navigating the uncertainty of a human world—such as Alexa reacting to the wrong conversations, or self-driving cars being stymied by. The real world is anything but binary. white trucks and orange traffic cones.

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

Cars That Think

Indeed, 2022 may be the year that neurorights becomes a hot topic, bringing the young neurotech industry and the human rights community into uncomfortable conversations. The right to personal identity. Legal scholars working with the NeuroRights Foundation say the right to mental privacy is under the most imminent threat.

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A Critical Look at AI-Generated Software

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An influential 2005 article in IEEE Spectrum identified several factors, which are still quite relevant. Most recently, OpenAI launched ChatGPT , a large-language-model chatbot that is capable of writing code with a little prompting in a conversational manner. This development sparks several important questions.

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The Tesla Autopilot Excuse: How EV ignorance created the perfect storm for a misinformation nightmare

Teslarati

It’s a chilling thought, but it is one that seemed to be casually supported by Ford CEO Jim Farley, who shared Consumer Reports ‘ Autopilot defeat device walkthrough on his personal Twitter page. . There was only one problem: the whole premise of the article was false. To add salt to the wound, Texas Rep.

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Musk claims both controversial Tesla shareholder votes passed

Baua Electric

It is still possible to vote shares in person tomorrow, physically at the shareholder meeting in Texas, but most of the counting will have been done by then. You’d think that was the end of the article, but it’s not. Despite this vote finally being (almost) behind us, there are bound to be many legal challenges ahead.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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This article was first published as “Marcian E Hoff.” In May 1971 an article in Datamation magazine mentioned the product, and the following November Intel produced its first ad for the 4004 CPU and placed it in Electronic News. While a research manager at Intel Corp., It appeared in the February 1994 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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