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- Collective behavior in termite-inspired robot construction team
A multirobot construction system inspired by mound-building termites. Independent climbing robots with onboard sensors automatically build user-specified structures out of specialized brick-sized building material. The robots are limited to local sensing and coordinate their activity indirectly by manipulating their shared environment and reacting to what they encounter. See pages 742 and 754, as well as supplementary movies online at www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/754/suppl/DC1..
- Google, democracy and the truth about internet search
Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 4 Dec 2016 Last week Jonathan Albright, an assistant professor of communications at Elon University in North Carolina, published the first detailed research on how rightwing websites had spread their message. “I took a list of these fake news sites that was circulating, I had an initial list of 306 of them and I used a tool – like the one Google uses – to scrape them for links and then I mapped them. So I looked at where the links went – into YouTube and Facebook, and between each other, millions of them… and I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
- NY Times - Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program
Master of Go Board Game Is Walloped by Google Computer Program Choe Sang-Hun and John Markoff, NY Times, March 9, 2016
- Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients
Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2019
A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, amplifying long-standing racial disparities in medicine, researchers have found.
- Supplementary material, including movies, for Designing Collective Behavior in a Termite-inspired Robot Construction Team
Goes with article in Science 14 Feb 2014;343(6172):754-758
- WAMU 1A: Algorithms: Almost Human?
WAMU 1A, March 11, 2019
Joshua Johnson speaks to experts on algorithms about how they’re developed and whom they affect. Guests
Kartik Hosanagar Author of “A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence: How Algorithms Are Shaping Our Lives and How We Can Stay in Control;” professor of technology and digital business at Wharton
Safiya Noble, PhD Author of "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism"; associate professor, UCLA; visiting faculty, the University of Southern California;
- Why Technology Favors Tyranny
Yuval Noah Harari, The Atlantic, October 2018 Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it. This article has been adapted from Yuval Noah Harari’s book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.