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Tuesday Thinkers on "PreCrime: AI Cops"
12 Dec 2023, 3 PM SLT
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Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report" popularized "precrime," envisioning a future where law enforcement prevents crimes before they occur.

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mumble Tuesday Thinkers - "The Plea for a Moratorium on AI"
An open letter signed by thousands of experts, scientists, entrepreneurs and politicians, worried about the emergence of powerful AI, publicly asks for a 6-month moratorium on AI development to allow ethical regulation to emerge. Read the open letter atPause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future ...and come to discuss!

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Tuesday Thinkers on "The elusive, mysterious Wikipedia business model"
Dec 20, 03:00 PM SLT
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Tuesday Thinkers on "Virtual Music Bands: The BBC Tells Just Half the Story"

The BBC wrote a very optimistic piece on 'the rise of K-pop virtual bands' (https://www.bbc.com/... which, however, just tells one side of the story.

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UPCOMING ON Tuesday Thinkers (Nov 8, 2022, 3 PM SLT): "CoinerTweeters: Will paying for Twitter to earn 'credibility' turn into the new inequality gap?"

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