This story is as shocking as it gets for AI and recommenders. A father claims that while using social media, especially Instagram, his daughter was bombarded with inappropriate images and that “some of that content is shocking in that it encourages self-harm, it links self-harm to suicide.” The girl in question went on to commit suicide. […]
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Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Freedom
Freedom is a slippery concept. At a physical or philosophical level there are many who deny that it exists at all. Spinoza, for instance, thought it didn’t. “Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined”. Yet it is hardwired into […]