Tag: artificial intelligence
Intellectual Freedom News 10/4/2019
“Auditing” the First Amendment at your public library; From the Director: Update on the Trans 101 Program; Chicago to become largest U.S. public library system to go fine-free for overdue materials that get returned
Surrendering our Privacy to Technology
The world continues to change quickly, and I would argue that librarians are uniquely situated to consider the implications of technology changes on our users and society. I think we have an ethical responsibility as keepers of our patrons’ data and educators of the next generation of digital citizens to make this a priority.
The Privacy Implications of Self-Driving Cars
Those behind the advent of autonomous vehicles would convince consumers that altruism motivates their drive to create robotic taxis. However an analysis of these arguments exposes gross violations of privacy in the name of profit and societal control.
Facebook Gets One Right: Opening the Internet to the Blind
Starting last November, Facebook began refining an artificial intelligence tool to analyze photos. As Mark Zuckerberg explained to an audience in Delhi, “If you are blind and you can’t see a photo, we can have our AI look at the photo and read an explanation of that photo to you.” And, as Zuckerberg pointed out, using machine interpreters instead of humans means that photos can be interpreted at any time, in any location, for anyone with visual limitations.