Last week I shared my experiences of the AISB hackathon. Another part of the conference that was open to members of the public was a panel discussion on The Ethical Impact of AI on Society. A quick look at the event page made it immediately obvious the wealth of knowledge and experience that would be answering questions:
This week saw the annual AISB conference come to Bath. That’s the “Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour” for the uninitiated which I include myself in. In addition to researchers presenting their papers, there was a hackathon that was opening to the public. The theme was “building Artificially Intelligent systems to work within society” and it was a great opportunity for academics to engage with the local developer community.
...Over the last couple of years, I’ve taken an interest in the rise in discussions on Universal Basic Income (UBI). It’s not often that I write about politics or economics but I wanted to compile the articles I’ve read and distill into one qualitative study on the topic to consider its attractiveness.
In case you aren’t familiar, the idea of universal basic income is to remove the various welfare benefit programmes and provide all citizens...
I grew up spending a lot of time reading. Entire days could disappear in a book, I found it engaging and inspiring. Having many hours of quiet and time to myself was an important factor in the quality of my study as well as my hobbies. Years on, after going through University and building an ecommerce agency, I think I’ve come to under appreciate that fact.
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