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Prove you're a human.
The author of ‘Technology vs. Humanity’, Gerd Leonhard stated in his open letter to Microsoft and Google's Partnership on AI:
In a world where machines may have an IQ of 50,000 and the Internet of Things may encompass 500 billion devices, what will happen with those important social contracts, values and ethics that underpin crucial issues such as privacy, anonymity and free will? [...] If the question is no longer about if technology can do something, but why...then who gets to decide this? Who is ‘mission control for humanity’? This is a good time to think about embracing a much wider responsibility to humanity by striving for a better mix of precaution and pro-action.
Between the fear that robots will take over our jobs and the hope that AI will be the final destination of civilisation, { }topia is an alternative place to start think about future of humanity. Why do we need to prove our humanity? Where is the line between humans and computers? What would it be like to live and work together with robots? Can we emotionally connected to them? How far do we want to go? Will Artificial Superintelligence take over us? Now is the ‘a good time to think’. I invite you to { }topia, somewhere between utopia and dystopia to trigger this complex discourse.