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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Blog 3 by Lloyd Ellis
Blog 3
By Lloyd Ellis
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
April 29, 2012
L&I SCI 120 - Information Technology Ethics
Instructor: Bradley Compton, PhD
Robotics
and Artificial Intelligence are both amazing technologies that have taken off
in the last 2 decades. Many issues and concerns also have come to light with
these new advances. As we know ethics can be the deal breaker between what gets
to be made marketable, public, and or an industry standard. When all is said
and done it can either be a great tool or chaos.
Class
discussion shed some light on the varying different topics of AI. It showed
that we can all have different ideas on how and why things are and the way they
will be in the future.
I
myself can relate as I depend heavily on technology to do my job, get up and to
work, and just for pleasure with daily living. A necessity no but it has become
a norm now. “In the future, will humans depend on the kind of smart objects and
smart environments made possible by AmI technology in ways that exceed our
current dependency on computing devices.”
I
believe we already overly depend on technology. So the future may be hell. The
issues that may come along with this are privacy concerns, freedom, and basic
right to just live without concerns. “ Cas notes that no one can be sure that
his or her actions are not being observed; nor can one be sure that his or her
words are not being recorded.” Just the
other day I asked a coworker if his new oh one had N.F.C where he could just
swipe the phone. No need to pull up an app. N.F.C . short for Near Field
Communication (go Android!) Anyhow he said why would he want that his concern
would be who else can just grab his info.
After
thinking about it he had a point but I will remind him when we work together
again. If someone wanted his info they already have it (see Cas’s quote). Big
Brother and hackers alike are everywhere. You never no.
Besides
this there is always the issue of what you do may be what you do that is now public.
This is known as Pervasive computing; a computing environment where information
and communication technologies are everywhere. What I make of this is be smart,
make wise choices, as autonomy may not be what you think it is.
References
Tavani,
Herman T. 2011, 3rd Edition
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