Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence has confronted us with a raft of dilemmas that challenge us to decide what values are important in our designs.
Dorothy E. Denning
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Two proposals intended to reduce flaws in software use two very different approaches for software security.
Cyber attack—the other side of cyber defense—deserves a more open discussion than it has been getting.
(The year is now 2100.) "Great-Grandma, my history teacher mentioned computers today. What were they?" So asked Ancath. "Yes, I remember them. They were among us when I was a child. My own grandfather was among the original inventors. They were everywhere and calculated everything. They were part of life. The biggest invention of all […]
Ultra-structure: a design theory for complex systems and processes
The physicist and Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine states that “our understanding of nature is undergoing a radical change toward the multiple, the temporal, and the complex. Curiously, the unexpected complexity found in nature has not led to a slowdown in the progress of science, but on the contrary to the emergence of new conceptual structures that now appear as essential to our understanding of the physical world” [11]. We believe the challenges posed by complex systems arise primarily from the use of conceptual structures that worked well for static systems but do not work as well for more dynamic systems. We therefore propose new conceptual structures based on a different metaphysical view of the nature of complex systems.
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