Norman Lewis
Dr Norman Lewis, writer, speaker and consultant on innovation and technology, was most recently a Director at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, where he set up and led their crowdsourced innovation service. Prior to this he was the Director of Technology Research at Orange. Follow him on Twitter @Norm_Lewis
- White House no longer wants to rely on Google & IBM to weaponize AI – and it’s ready to spend money to poach top talent
Plans to increase the AI and quantum computing budget shows that the Pentagon will no longer be a backseat driver in the development of cutting-edge military tech. Expect US capabilities to grow rapidly and in greater secrecy. - Fear fueled by speculation & doomsday scenarios over coronavirus spread poses greater threat to global economy than the epidemicThe impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the global economy is potentially great but the good news is that this danger is containable if we recognize that fear itself has become a significant economic factor.
- Is an AI arms race more dangerous than a nuclear one? Yes, but not like in ‘Terminator'Fear that the impact of militarised artificial intelligence (AI) on war and international relations could be more deadly than the nuclear arms race is both an exaggeration and an underestimation of the threat this represents.
- Proposed UK tax on American tech giants betrays Europe’s bitterness over inability to create its own Google & AmazonThe proposed tax by the UK on US digital tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google is not the start of a new trade war between Europe and the US, but an admission of Europe’s failure to compete in the digital era.
- Siri & Alexa might be having a sex change, but why does your phone’s voice assistant need to be gender-neutral?Projects to develop gender-neutral voice assistants to replace the historically dominant white and Chinese male voices are not solving a real problem – they are creating one.
- UK media uses Christopher Steele (of all people!) to push new conspiracy theory about Cambridge Analytica & 2020 election hackingA fresh Cambridge Analytica leak of more than 100,000 documents exposing its work in 68 countries claims to show that global electoral manipulation is now on an ‘industrial scale’ and ‘is totally out of control’. Is it really?
- #MeTooBots that will scan your personal emails for ‘harassment’ are an Orwellian misuse of AIThe rise of so-called #MeTooBots, which can identify certain digital bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace, is a sinister threat to privacy and an attempt to harness science to further a political and cultural offensive.
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