Labour Day thoughts on Automation and the Future of Work

To summarize, for a long time I have been very optimistic about technological innovations and about the future in general. I’ve often even described myself as a tech enthusiast and optimist. While that’s still largely true, I’ve come to share similar worries that Kevin Roose described in his book. Making the societal and political changes needed for enabling us to live good lives in the future will be a monumental challenge. One that I sincerely hope we will succeed in solving, but knowing how incredibly irrational humans occasionally can be, it’s not at all certain that we’ll be able to rise up to the challenge.

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A few thoughts on the AI Black Box problem

As we’re seeing more and more solutions around us leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), typically some form of machine learning (ML), many have begun to wonder how those solutions actually work. Especially when it comes to processes like medical diagnostics and credit scoring, people have started to ask the question: how did system X reach conclusion Y?

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