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  1. Alexa, Should We Trust You?

    Article This article discusses the potential of voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant to change our society. A big...

  2. Andrew Yang Is Full of It

    Article In this article, the author pushes back against Andrew Yang's dystopian warnings about automation and mass unemployment that have motivated...

  3. FACT CHECK: Do Robots Or Trade Threaten American Workers More?

    Article This article fact checks claims made by Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang in a 2019 Democratic presidential debate regarding if...

  4. Here Comes The Robot Revolution Lecture Slides

    Lecture / slides Slides for Lecture 18 of Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering department. In this lecture, the...

  5. How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy

    Article This article discusses how automating away jobs isn’t always a bad thing. The article begins with the example of automated...

  6. MIT Report Examines How to Make Technology Work for Society

    Article This article describes the findings from MIT’s Task Force on Work of the Future. The report finds that while the...

  7. Reading Quiz 09

    Reading Quiz This reading quiz for Ethical and Professional Issues in Notre Dame's Computer Science and Engineering Department covers the following readings: Why...

  8. Silicon Valley's Unchecked Arrogance

    Article In this article, the author argues that the idea of Universal Basic Income comes from Silicon Valley’s arrogant view toward...

  9. The Future of Not Working

    Article In this article, Annie Lowrey investigates an experiment in universal basic income that is being run by the NGO GiveDirectly...

  10. There's an Automation Crisis Underway Right Now, It's Just Mostly Invisible

    Article This article describes the results of a research study on workplace automation’s impact on the individual worker. While the study...

  11. Why Silicon Valley is Embracing Universal Basic Income

    Article This article describes how Universal Basic Income (UBI) works, and how it fits into Silicon Valley’s agenda. While some critics...

  12. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

    Article From the article summary: "Bill Joy, cofounder and and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems, argues that the technologies of the future...