Should we be scared of robots overtaking us, or should we embrace AI as an opportunity to make our lives better and work more efficient? As AI’s impact on our life is inevitably transforming our world, in this month’s issue we are looking at how algorithms force us rethink basic notions such as the mind or intelligence, and economic and political structures such as the workplace, and the judiciary system.
We interviewed Andy Clark – the philosopher famous for his ‘Extended Mind’ theory, and who is looking forward to becoming a cyborg.
On the one hand, we have John Collins, disruptive technologist at Imperial College’s Innovation and Knowledge Centre in Synthetic Biology, argue that we shouldn’t be scared of AI because there are no armies of bots coming to replace us. Instead, he writes that AI is simply statistics, of which we are in charge.
On the other hand, algorithms are not as objective as we might think, argues the Research director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media Carl Miller. Find out how they are re-shaping the judiciary in his article When A Robot Becomes Judge.
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