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The Wall Street Journal reports:
As a new generation grows up surrounded by artificial intelligence, researchers find education as early as preschool can help avoid confusion about robots' role
If you want your preschooler to grow up with a healthy attitude toward artificial intelligence, here's a tip: Don't call that cute talking robot 'he' or 'she.'
Call the robot 'it.'
Today's small children, aka Generation Alpha, are the first to grow up with robots as peers. Those winsome talking devices spawned by a booming education-tech industry can speed children's learning, but they also can be confusing to them, research shows. Many children think robots are smarter than humans or imbue them with magical powers.
The long-term consequences of growing up surrounded by AI-driven devices won't be clear for a while. But an expanding body of research is lending new impetus to efforts to expand technology education beyond learning to code, to understanding how AI works. Children need help drawing boundaries between themselves and the technology, and gaining confidence in their own ability to control and master it, researchers say."
[...] How to Raise an AI-Savvy Child
* Use the pronoun "it" when referring to a robot.
* Display a positive attitude toward the beneficial effects of AI.
* Encourage your child to explore how robots are built.
* Explain that humans are the source of AI-driven devices' intelligence.
* Guard against AI-propelled toys that presume too much, such as claiming to be your child's best friend.
* Invite children to consider the ethics of AI design, such as how a bot should behave after winning a game.
* Encourage skepticism about information received from smart toys and devices.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 30 2019, @06:32AM (1 child)
Yeah, of course Corporate Personhood is just a legal fiction to absolve or reduce the culpability of CEOs and shareholders by making the Corporation the person who committed the crime and not the real criminals, who at worst, will be accused of aiding the 'person' who committed the crime. Of course that 'person' will never have to face the actual consequences of the crime as it can never be jailed, only fined, broken up or dissolved.
You're correct, even Siri, Alexa or Cortana is more deserving of personhood.
As far as phone spammers go, I'm up for remote electrocution. Not to the point of death mind you, just make it painful to be one.
Unless of course it's the fifth time with the same guy who you've already said:
"Please remove me from your list."
"I've told you before, remove me from your list."
"Goddammit, I said remove me, NOW!"
"Fuck off."
"I ate your ancestor for lunch goat fucker."
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Friday August 30 2019, @12:14PM
Oh, I don't know; it just needs a little creative thinking. Add some bars to the windows and barbed wire fences if the corporation hasn't already got them, turn the cubicles into cells, remove internet access and all sharp objects, upgrade the reception area.
Ah no, wait, would that be equivalent to turning someone into a jail, rather than actually jailing them? In that case just build a big jail around the outside of the building!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?