“Robotics and AI have become one of the most prominent technological trends of our century. The fast increase of their use and development brings new and difficult challenges to our society”, writes Delvaux. Therefore, the reasoning goes, “robots and artificial intelligence (AI) would increase their interaction with humans”, raising “legal and ethical issues which…
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Future Technology
Experts Predict Future of eLearning in 2017
Top Experts predict what will transform eLearning in 2017 A big THANK YOU to Joomla LMS for including me recently, in their very nice “flip book” of educational technology predictions. It’s a fantastic compilation of varied educational technology experts. Out of space concerns, they edited my rather lengthy response (if you’re interested, it’s included in full below)….
New Horizon Report K-12 2016
What’s on the five-year horizon for K-12 Educational Technology & which trends and technologies will drive educational change? This publication charts the five-year horizon for the impact of emerging technologies in school communities across the globe. With 15 years of research and publications, the NMC Horizon Project can be regarded as the world’s longest-running exploration…
AI & Robots: How can we “future proof” students?
Sunday, April 24th at 8PM Central (6PM Pacific) Thanks to @Tom_Kilgore and the popular @TxEduChat for asking me to host another Twitter Chat! I’m excited to have some fun and explore the topic: AI & Robots: How can we “future proof” students? Artificial Intelligence and Robots are developing are a RAPID pace! With two new grandchildren,…
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University
The Future of Employment Research Report from Oxford University In this report, Oxford University addresses the question: How susceptible are jobs to computerization? Doing so, they build on the existing literature in two ways. First, drawing upon recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Mobile Robotics (MR), they develop a novel methodology to categorize occupations according to…
Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents
The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no “user…