Promotion of Human Values (142)

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  • Privacy
  • Accountability
  • Transparency and Explainability
  • Human Control of Technology
  • Professional Responsibility
  • Promotion of Human Values
  • Fairness and Non-discrimination
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  • Kinolab
  • 2018
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The Digitization of Memory and its Consequences

Wade Watts lives in an imagined future in which the OASIS, a limitless virtual reality world, acts as a constant distraction from the real world for the majority of citizens. In this scene, his virtual avatar Parzival visits the Halliday Journals, a complete archive of the memories of James Halliday, the creator of the OASIS. These memories are digitized in their complete abstract form, and seem freely accessible to anyone.

  • Kinolab
  • 2018
  • 7 min
  • Vice
  • 2021
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How Musicians and Sex Workers Beat Facial Recognition in New Orleans

In New Orleans, a city known for its history of racist policing, grassroots activists turned to precedent from other states to ban police use of surveillance and facial recognition technology through both public and private cameras.

  • Vice
  • 2021
  • 5 min
  • Wired
  • 2015
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Siri and Cortana Sound Like Ladies Because of Sexism

Often, gender bias is consciously or subconsciously embedded into the performance of virtual voice assistants, without considering some science surrounding linguistics or gender.

  • Wired
  • 2015
  • 5 min
  • Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
  • 1916
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Pygmalion and his Ivory Maid: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book X, lines 243-297.

A brief excerpt on Pygmalion’s love for his “marble maiden,” which could be compared to the human creation of robots for companionship use.

  • Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press
  • 1916
  • 8 min
  • Kinolab
  • 1982
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Digital Hegemony in the Real and Virtual Worlds

Main Control Program, an Artificial Intelligence presence, has self-developed beyond the imagination of its creators and sets its sights on hacking global governments, including the pentagon. It believes that with its growing intelligence, it can rule better than any human can, and forces the hand of Dillinger, a human, to help move its hacking beyond corporations. Meanwhile, a team of hackers attempt to break into the mainframe of this system. When the rebel hacker Flynn attempts to hack into the mainframe of the MCP, he is drawn into the digital world of the computer which is under the dominion of the MCP. Sark, one of the digital beings who serves the MCP, is tasked with killing Flynn.

  • Kinolab
  • 1982
  • 14 min
  • Kinolab
  • 2014
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Liberty, Autonomy, and Desires of Humanoid Robots

Caleb, a programmer in a large company, is invited by his boss Nathan to test a robot named Ava. During one session of the Turing Test, Ava fearfully interrogates Caleb on what her fate will be if she is deemed not capable or human enough by the results of the test. Caleb struggles to deliver the honest answer, especially given that Ava displays attachment toward him, a sentiment which he returns. After Caleb discovers that Nathan wants to essentially kill Ava, he loops her in to his escape plan, offering her freedom and a chance to live a human life. Once Nathan is killed, Ava goes to his robotics repository and bestows a new physical, humanlike appearance upon herself. She then permanently traps Caleb, the only remaining person who knows she is an android, in Nathan’s compound before escaping to live a human life in the real world.

  • Kinolab
  • 2014
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