Reading  @FrankPasquale's #NewLawsOfRobotics felt like a triple pass:

1) the usual way of reading
2) highlighting text, writing notes (I love it!)
3) re-reading what I did in 2)

and it couldn't be better.

A highly recommend book; a monumental piece. I've learned so much!

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For comparison, here are Asimov's laws of #robotics and  @FrankPasquale's #NewLawsOfRobotics

#AI

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I could start commenting each and every chapter, even each and every paragraph, and would end up spoiling the whole book!

It follows a very random selection of some of the topics and quotes

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"We should not be dismantling or disabling professions, as all too many advocates of disruptive innovation aspire to do. Rather, humane automation will require the strengthening of existing communities of expertise and the creation of new ones." @FrankPasquale

#AI #robotics

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"When chatbots fool the unwary into thinking that they are interacting with humans, their programmers act as counterfeiters, falsifying features of actual human existence to increase the status of their machines."  @FrankPasquale

#AI #robotics #chatbots

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Sets of problems explored in  @FrankPasquale's book:

1) #AI with no understanding, "blind to the substance of communication is an easy target for extremists, frauds, and criminals."

2) Shift of revenue and attention from traditional media sources.

3) Black boxed AI

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#regulation "is not meant merely to rein in mad scientists or put some guard rails around rambunctious corporate titans [but to ensure that humans-dependent fields do not develop] according to the dictates of firms now dominant in commercializing #AI." @FrankPasquale

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Communities of expertise and practice are urgently needed (more than accumulation of capital).

This is not the current trend in #AI, robotics, and tech in general, though.

We must pay attention and act *now*.

@FrankPasquale

#NewLawsOfRobotics

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"If we fail to reserve the honorific 'real' to describe the #intelligence, #creativity, #understanding, and wisdom of [humans], we risk even further devaluing labour, by idolizing technology and capital."  @FrankPasquale

#AI #robotics

#NewLawsOfRobotics

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"Neither managers nor bureaucrats should be allowed to hide behind algorithmic modes of social ordering. Rather, personal responsibility for decisions is essential to maintaining legitimate governance, whether of state agencies or businesses."
@FrankPasquale

#AI #AIEthics

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