Perspective.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02663821211020194
The new physicality of data
The mass digitisation of data arguably began in the late 1980s with the mainstream adoption of new low-cost desktop computers in the workplace and visions of a paperless office. The term reflected a focus on the digitisation of existing processes. Such comparisons continued with the arrival of the Internet and worldwide web in the mid-1990s, with visions of e-commerce replacing traditional bricks-and-mortar shops. In the first two decades of the 21st century, we have entered an era where much of the data created is now digital by design and default yet simultaneously integrated with physical objects and real-world interactions. This article explores some of the innovations made possible by this new physicality of data, from the birth of a digital twin to the death of privacy, and the growing urgency for new approaches to data governance and information lifecycle management.
Law takes longer than you think.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-021-00460-9
The European Legislation on AI: a Brief Analysis of its Philosophical Approach
Things is gonna change!
file:///C:/Users/temp/Downloads/digital-human-sciences.pdf
Digital Human Sciences
The ongoing digitization of culture and society and the ongoing production of new digital objects in culture and society require new ways of investigation, new theoretical avenues, and new multidisciplinary frameworks. In order to meet these requirements, this volume digs into questions concerning, for example: the epistemology of data produced and shared on social media platforms; the need for new legal concepts that regulate the increasing use of artificial intelligence in society; and the need for combinatory methods to research new media objects such as podcasts, web art, and online journals in relation to their historical, social, institutional, and political effects and contexts. Gathered around the perspective of what we call digital human sciences—a field of research that includes the humanities, the social sciences, and law— the chapters in this volume emanate from scholars situated within a broad range of disciplines. Nevertheless, they meet in the mutual objectives of researching the present digitization of culture and society and of discussing ways of doing research within this field of study.
(Related) Reducing anti-AI bias?
Toward Industry 5.0: Ethical and Moral Responsibilities in Intelligent Autonomous Systems
By Industry 4.0, we have entered a period where machines communicate with each other. This period constitutes the first steps of the Industry 5.0 era, where machines will make autonomous decisions and these decisions will have significant effects on people's lives. High achievements obtained in many areas with Artificial Intelligence algorithms are the basis of these developments in the industry. The fact that intelligent systems, whose intelligibility decrease as their success and complexity increase, will be used in making important decisions that affect people has brought many doubts. These doubts are not only related to the end-user side but also social and economic transformations. The main obstacles to Industry 5.0 are social prejudices against the intelligent community that is planned to be developed. For this reason, it must be explained to the public about what kind of ethical and moral responsibilities intelligent and autonomous machines have. In this study, it was investigated in which situations artificial intelligence should have ethical and moral values and how it can learn these values. In addition, the possible social and technological implications of a trustworthy ethical basis for intelligent autonomous systems have been evaluated by compiling existing studies in the context of technology and sociology.
(Related) Animals got rights, just like AI rights?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-021-00065-0
Moral consideration of nonhumans in the ethics of artificial intelligence
This paper argues that the field of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics needs to give more attention to the values and interests of nonhumans such as other biological species and the AI itself. It documents the extent of current attention to nonhumans in AI ethics as found in academic research, statements of ethics principles, and select projects to design, build, apply, and govern AI. It finds that the field of AI ethics gives limited and inconsistent attention to nonhumans, with the main activity being a line of research on the moral status of AI. The paper argues that nonhumans merit moral consideration, meaning that they should be actively valued for their own sake and not ignored or valued just for how they might benefit humans. Finally, it explains implications of moral consideration of nonhumans for AI ethics research and practice, including for the content of AI ethics principles, the selection of AI projects, the accounting of inadvertent effects of AI systems such as via their resource and energy consumption and potentially certain algorithmic biases, and the research challenge of incorporating nonhuman interests and values into AI system design. The paper does not take positions on which nonhumans to morally consider or how to balance the interests and values of humans vs. nonhumans. Instead, the paper makes the more basic argument that the field of AI ethics should move from its current state of affairs, in which nonhumans are usually ignored, to a state in which nonhumans are given more consistent and extensive moral consideration.
Without all the rhetoric, it is legal to require your employees to take drugs?
Judge dismisses staff lawsuit over Houston Methodist vaccine mandate
A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit from more than 100 employees of the Houston Methodist hospital system over the hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes said the employees weren’t illegally being forced to get vaccinated in order to keep their jobs.
The decision is a victory for Houston Methodist, which was the first hospital system in the U.S. to mandate its employees get vaccinated, though plaintiffs plan to appeal the ruling.
… Houston Methodist gave its employees until June 7 to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or face termination.
… The 117 plaintiffs, led by Jennifer Bridges, a nurse, accused the hospital of “forcing its employees to be human ‘guinea pigs’ as a condition for continued employment.”
The suit further alleged that the vaccines were experimental and dangerous, and that being forced to get vaccinated violated federal law.
Perspective. This won’t be the only industry impacted.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/software-eating-car
How Software Is Eating the Car
Predictions of lost global vehicle production caused by the ongoing semiconductor shortage continue to rise. In January, analysts forecast that 1.5 million fewer vehicles would be produced as a result of the shortage; by April that number had steadily climbed to more than 2.7 million units, and by May, to more than 4.1 million units.
The semiconductor shortage has underscored not only the fragility of the automotive supply chain, but placed an intense spotlight on the auto industry’s reliance on the dozens of concealed computers embedded throughout vehicles today.
“No other industry is undergoing as rapid technological change as the auto industry,” says Zoran Filipi, Chair of the Department of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research. “This is driven by the need to address impending, evermore stringent CO2 and criteria emission regulations, while sustaining unprecedented rate of progress with development of automation and infotainment, and meeting the customer expectations regarding performance, comfort, and utility.”
A teaser for better writers?
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-become-a-paid-writer/
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