Age of AI

Send us a textChris and Medlir explore with Young Diogenes the question of whether AI will be our artist of the future, while Medlir talks to Ilan Manor about public digital diplomacy and the use of digital tools in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.Links:AI-art isn’t artCommunicating with Purpose and Value: Chapter 3 Digital DiplomacyHow Digital Diplomacy is Shaping the #Ukraine CrisisDigital Diplomacy in #Ukraine- A Case of Strategic TransparencyWhy digital sanctions are the latest geopolitical battleground

Send us a textChris and Medlir review AI-themed television shows with Young Diogenes (e.g. Westworld), followed by a discussion with Frederick Bruneault, professor of philosophy at University of Quebec Montreal, asking the question: How do we define AI ethics and how do we avoid pitfalls in the debate surrounding it. Finally, we ask Dr. Bruneault, what is missing from the current discussion on AI ethics?Links:Groupe de recherche sur l’information et la surveillance au quotidienAI ethics debate: How can information ethics provide a framework which allows us to avoid usual conceptual pitfalls?» (coll. A.S. Laflamme), AI & Society, 36, 2021, 757-766AI Ethics Training in Higher Education: Competency Framework» (coll. A.S. Laflamme & A. Mondoux), SocArXiv, March 2022The role of corporations in addressing AI’s ethical dilemmas, Darrell M. West Thursday, September 13, 2018 Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Human Rights: Risks and OpportunitiesPamela Passman

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Send us a textMedlir and Chris start off our third season with AI4Peace's Branka Panic, about how AI can contribute to peace and conflict prevention. Plus see our bonus episode this week on YD's AI movie picks, which also led to a lively second discussion.Links:AI4Peace | https://www.aiforpeace.org/ Report on data for peacebuilding and prevention | https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/can_emerging_technologies_lead_a_revival_of_conflict_early_warningearly_action_lessons_from_the_field-2022_0.pdf The Berkeley Protocol | https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/12/berkeley-protocol-gives-guidance-using-public-digital-info-fight-human-rights The Costs of Connection | https://colonizedbydata.com/ Conflict Forecast | https://conflictforecast.org/ Hala Systems | https://halasystems.com/ 

Send us a textHow do we teach emerging tech in IR? How will technological changes impact the discipline in particular and higher education more broadly? How can we best design curriculums to address emerging challenges? These are some of the questions Medlir and Chris will explore in the second part of our two part series on higher education with guests Andre Barrinha and Raluca Csernatori.

Send us a textWhat does the education look like in an age of everincreasing demands for technical proficiency and availability? How can we make better uses of emerging tech in our classrooms and study spaces? Tech IQ versus Emotional IQ. What is the balance? Professor Nancy Gleason and Dr. Alexandra Mihai joined Chris and Medlir to discuss these questions and more in the first of a two-episode special on Higher Education and Teaching in the age of AI.  (YD is on hiatus this week.)Links:https://educationalist.substack.comhttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-13-0194-0.pdf

Send us a textMedlir and Chris talk to Bojan Perkov of the SHARE Foundation about digital surveillance in Serbia. Meanwhile, YD discusses why mass surveillance and facial recognition technologies are far from benign. Noteshttps://medium.com/s/story/facial-recognition-is-the-perfect-tool-for-oppression-bc2a08f0fe66 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/facebook-privacy.htmlhttps://www.sharefoundation.info/en/

Send us a textMedlir and Chris talk to Marwa Fatafta, a Palestian digital rights activist, about her work as a digital activist in Palestine and how digital technologies are harnessed against civil society. Young Diogenes also explains the nuts-and-bolts of spyware.https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/statement-report/statement-targeting-palestinian-hrds-pegasushttps://www.accessnow.org/women-human-rights-defenders-pegasus-attacks-bahrain-jordan/https://www.nsogroup.com/https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/01/26/interview-phone-hrw-director-attacked-using-pegasus-spyware

Send us a textMedlir and Chris have a discussion with Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak of IDC Herzliya-Israel, about: the evolving role of tunnels in warfare, the importance of international humanitarian law, the Abraham Accords, and whether AI-enabled defense systems like Israel's Iron Dome should be emulated or regulated alongside other Autonomous Weapons Systems. Meanwhile, Young Diongenes shares what some of the consequences may be for AIs 'mastering' the human game of hide & seek.Links:https://lieber.westpoint.edu/technology-humanity-end-war/https://www.idc.ac.il/en/_layouts/15/elad.sps.idc.sprint4/pages/handler.aspx?type=publication&publicationId=4679&userName=barak.daphnehttps://cset.georgetown.edu/newsletter/september-23-2021https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/the-idf-and-the-ai-game-changer-674636https://www.inss.org.il/publication/artificial-intelligence-and-national-security-in-israelhttps://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/11/israel-joins-international-artificial-intelligence-grouphttps://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/The-first-AI-conflict-Israel-s-Gaza-operation-gives-glimpse-of-future

Send us a textDescription: Medlir and Chris discuss with Gloria Shkurti Özdemir of Turkey-based think-tank SETA, Turkey's ambitious plans for the development and export of AI-enabled military hardware in light of the country's recently announced 5 year strategy. Ismail al-Jaazari, a 12th century Muslim scholar, inventor, artist, and mathematician credited with being the father of robotics, and Ada Lovelace, a gifted 19th century mathematician and the world's 'first computer programmer', make a joint appearance in our segment with Young Diogenes.https://cbddo.gov.tr/SharedFolderServer/Genel/File/TR-NationalAIStrategy2021-2025.pdfhttps://politicstoday.org/turkeys-uav-breakthrough-creates-another-path-to-mena/https://www.dailysabah.com/business/tech/turkey-rolls-out-strategic-artificial-intelligence-road-maphttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/ismail-al-jazari-muslim-inventor-called-father-roboticshttps://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/ada-lovelace-the-first-tech-visionary