Jaron Lanier, “You are not a gadget” (2011: 32): “But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart”. More of this in book by Evan Selinger

New Forbes: "We Are Not A Dashboard: Contesting The Tyranny Of Metrics, Measurement, And Managerialism." forbes.com/sites/davidsha… cc Kenneth Cukier Steven Levy Jerry Z. Muller Nassim Nicholas Taleb frankpasquale.bsky.social or [email protected] Darshak Sanghavi

On the growing discontinuities between #datascience and research ethics regulation: buff.ly/2ZXQHoD Jacob Metcalf 🐀 Kate Crawford

15/ .Georgetown Privacy warned 2 years ago: If deployed pervasively, face surveillance threatens to create a world where, once you set foot outside the government can track your every move. That’s not a world I want to live in. americaunderwatch.com

It’s not just Ring. Amazon is well on its way to becoming the operating system for U.S. police. nbcnews.com/tech/security/…

hey Vodafone Service, gibt es bei Ihnen eine Störung im Raum Langen/Darmstadt? Seit 2 Tagen funktioniert das Internet nicht…

What will the future of non-state drone use and the so-called Third Drone Age look like? James Patton Rogers explores in this essay for our latest series: cigionline.org/articles/the-t…

✨ Optischer Verbesserungsvorschlag aus dem Schwabenland ✨ #VfB | @Bundeskanzler

#scholz #AmpelAus Was macht eigentlich Bundespräsident Steinmeier angesichts der Regierungskrise? Warum drängt er Scholz nicht, die Vertrauensfrage zu stellen? Was hört man aus Bellevue?

#aktenzeichenxy "Das Gebiss war stark sanierungsbedürftig"

Behind neuroscientists' and machine-learning experts' joint effort to reverse-engineer the brain. trib.al/RbVJCRh

If you dream of helper bots cooking your breakfast and babysitting your kids, some roboticists suggest designing your home to make it more droid-friendly bit.ly/2niTy8O