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Should Facebook be broken up? The lesson of Policy Vacuums

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Facebook has recently revised their privacy policy by virtually admitting to errors made in the 2016 presidential elections campaign. But that’s clearly not enough. Is legislation required? Is government intervention appropriate? Should Facebook be broken up? What about other information giants? Here to help us answer this question is the term ‘policy vacuum’ introduced in 2005 by Jim Moor, a professor of ethics in Dartmouth College and celebrated technology ethicist.

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Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence

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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-03 Author: Roman V. Yampolskiy Cybersecurity research involves publishing papers about malicious exploits as much as publishing information on how to design tools to protect cyber-infrastructure. It is this information exchange between ethical hackers and security experts, which results in a well-balanced cyber-ecosystem. In the blooming domain of AI Safety Engineering, hundreds

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Energetics of the Brain and AI

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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-02 Author: Anders Sandberg Does the energy requirements for the human brain give energy constraints that give reason to doubt the feasibility of artificial intelligence? In Energetics of the Brain & AI I review some relevant estimates of brain bioenergetics and analyze some of the methods of estimating brain emulation energy requirements.

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The Singularity Controversy, Part I

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Sapience Technical Report STR 2016-1 Author: Amnon H. Eden ‘The Singularity Controversy, Part I: Lessons Learned and Open Questions: Conclusions from the Battle on the Legitimacy of the Debate‘ informs policy makers on the nature and the merit of the arguments for and against the concerns associated with a potential technological singularity. Part I describes the lessons learned from

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