Tag Archives: Ethical issues

Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of our lives. It is so intertwined and widespread that most of the time we do not realise it is there. You take a picture with your smartphone and it automatically decides what to focus on. Well, that “automatically” requires AI that inspect …

In these last few weeks I have been working on the preparation of an education course that will be published by IEEE on the topic of VR and AR roles in Smart Factories. Smart Factories (has anything that can/should be labelled as “smart”) involve knowledge and being a factory an …

For as long as we can go back in time our relation with tools has been ambivalent: on the one hand it is no brainer that they simplify our life, extend our capabilities, on the other hand it is often the case that they take away something from us (it …

As an additional point, I have been focussing on the knowledge aspects captured by a CDT. However, it may not be a big leap to imagine a CDT that is also embedding other aspect of my personality. That would, as a matter of fact, be important if I were to …

From Genome Sequencing to Artificial Human Genome The progress in genome sequencing has been so significant that in 20 years we have moved from a billion $ endeavour to obtain the first genome sequence to a mass market offering of sequencing. There is still quite a bit of confusion on …

Computational Biology As remarked in the previous posts on Synthetic Biology, this is an area where no progress would be possible without the support of computers and AI. More than that: in the last few years progress has been fostered by computational approaches to the point of creating a new …

– Delegation of functions to the CDT for interaction in the company cyberspace Once at level IV a CDT can act autonomously in a company cyberspace to make knowledge available to company’s resources. These resources can be other CDTs and employees. A CDT may interact with other company’s CDT searching …

As technology progresses our established categories lose their well defined borders. We are seeing this happening in many areas, and in many cases this brings new ethical questions to the fore, Think about the fading boundary between life and death: a person physical processes can be kept operating thanks to …

Radical Life Extension The Human life span has increased considerably if one looks back in time. Just 200 years ago life expectation was at least 20 years shorter than today. However, if one looks at the maximum age recorded (it gets more and more difficult to have an accurate reporting …

The first three goals are clearly directed to improve “my knowledge”, the first one being more generally applicable to any learning, including school learning, while the second and the third more specifically tailored to the need of a professional (the second is clearly oriented to provide knowledge “pills” functional to …