Kristen Thomasen will lead a discussion of Mason Marks‘s Robots in Space: Sharing Our World with Autonomous Delivery Vehicles on Friday, April 12, at 3:30 p.m. at #werobot 2019. Industrial robots originated in mid-Twentieth Century factories where they increased the efficiency of manufacturing. Their implementation was an extension of earlier industrial automation such as the introduction […]
We’ve put up a page about our special art installation, ‘The Moral Labyrinth” by Sarah Newman & Jessica Fjeld, which will be on display during We Robot 2019. Check it out.
Kate Darling will lead a discussion of Carys Craig and Ian Kerr‘s Death of the AI Author on Friday, April 12, at 1:45 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. at #werobot 2019. Much of the second-generation literature on AI and authorship asks whether an increasing sophistication and independence of generative code should cause us […]
Madeleine Elish will lead a discussion of Deirdre Mulligan and Daniel Kluttz‘s AI, Professionals, and Professional Work: The Practice of Law with Automated Decision Support Technologies on Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 12, at 1:45 p.m. at #werobot 2019. Technical systems employing algorithms are shaping and displacing human decision making in a variety […]
Heather Roff will lead a discussion of Jesse Woo‘s Toward a Comprehensive View of the Influence of Artificial Intelligence on International Affairs on Friday, April 12, at 4:45 p.m. at #werobot 2019. This essay has two objectives. The first is to widen the lens on the influences of artificial intelligence (AI) in international affairs beyond […]
Madeleine Elish will lead a discussion of Jake Goldenfein, Deirdre Mulligan, and Helen Nissenbaum‘s The Human/Weapon Relationship in the Age of Autonomous Weapons and the Attribution of Criminal Responsibility for War Crimes on Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 12, at 1:45 p.m. at #werobot 2019. There is a great deal of hype around […]
Kate Darling will lead a discussion of Tabrez Ebrahim‘s Artificial Patent Infringement on Friday, April 12, at 1:45 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. at #werobot 2019. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is exploding across industries for developing or delivering goods and services. Businesses and inventors have followed with seeking patent protection in A.I. The rapid […]
George Kantor will lead a discussion of Karen Levy, Solon Barocas, & Alexandra Mateescu‘s Reap What You Sow? Precision Agriculture and The Privacy of Farm Data on Friday, April 12 at 11:30 a.m. at #werobot 2019. Across rural America, the day-to-day lives of farmers are changing. Traditional forms of land management are rapidly shifting into […]
Kristian Lum will lead a discussion of Alicia Solow-Niederman, YooJung Choi, and Guy Van den Broeck‘s The Institutional Life of Algorithmic Assessment on Friday, April 12, at 10:15 a.m. at #werobot 2019. On August 28, 2018, California passed the California Money Bail Reform Act, also known as Senate Bill 10 (SB 10), and eliminated the state’s […]
Bryan Choi will lead a discussion of Petros Terzis‘s The Reasonable Coder on Friday, April 12 at 9:15 a.m. at #werobot 2019. Algorithmic decision-making tools are no longer a mere field of scientific exploration and academic debates. Today data, code and algorithms, blended altogether in the concept of Machine Learning (ML), are used to identify potential […]