32: Ed Finn

In the 32^nd episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Ed Finn. Ed is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. They talk about wide range of subjects, including technology, politics, Internet of Things and Big Data, algorithms, Chinese national ranking system, automation in military-industrial-complex, ethics and morality in Artificial Intelligence, philosophy, as well as Ed’s new book, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:47 — 21.6MB)

Links:

Ed Finn: www.edfinn.net
Center for Science and the Imagination: http://csi.asu.edu
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing: www.amazon.ca/What-Algorithms-Want-Imagination-Computing/dp/0262035928
China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything: www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-new-tool-for-social-control-a-credit-rating-for-everything-1480351590
Robots Poised to Take Over Wide Range of Military Jobs: www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sd-me-robots-military-20170130-story.html
Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence: www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html

Agah Bahari

Photographer, and Senior Music Writer at Live in Limbo. Agah is a musician, sound designer, and hobbyist writer & photographer. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMY Awards), and former voting member and judge of CARAS (JUNO Awards).