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Amnon H. Eden, Ph.D. is a computer scientist, assistant professor with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, a research fellow with the Center For Inquiry, and the associate editor of “Minds and Machines”. In the past he worked in the high-tech industry as a programmer and software designer and chaired the software engineering diploma programme at Tel Aviv College of Management.

125 posts by Amnon H. Eden

• AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help… just not too much – September 8, 2020
• Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem – January 31, 2020
• Not a review of “The Artificial Intelligence Contagion”​ – December 23, 2019
• The Battle Is For The Customer Interface – December 14, 2019
• HSBC swaps paper records for blockchain to track $20 billion worth of assets – November 28, 2019
• Paralysed man walks using mind-controlled exoskeleton – October 4, 2019
• Boston Dynamics’ robot is doing gymnastics now – September 24, 2019
• Ministry of Defence is developing ‘military Alexa’ to give soldiers crucial information using artificial intelligence – September 17, 2019
• AI Startup Boom Raises Questions of Exaggerated Tech Savvy – August 16, 2019
• Human microbiome churns out thousands of tiny novel proteins – August 11, 2019
• This isn’t Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead – August 3, 2019
• Australia embraces ‘killer robots’ – July 14, 2019
• Tesla driver killed after smashing into truck had just enabled Autopilot – US crash watchdog – May 18, 2019
• The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity – April 9, 2019
• Blockchain Featured in Big Four Firm Deloitte’s Annual Tech Trends Report – January 19, 2019
• Cyberconflict: Why the Worst Is Yet to Come | NYT News – January 4, 2019
• Boston Dynamics’ robot can now do parkour – October 11, 2018
• London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent error rate – August 18, 2018
• Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States – July 20, 2018
• London police chief ‘completely comfortable’ using facial recognition with 98 percent false positive rate – July 6, 2018
• Google says its AI is better at predicting death than hospitals – June 19, 2018
• The robot will see you now: how AI could revolutionise NHS – June 11, 2018
• Remarks for Commissioner Rostin Behnam at the BFI Summit “Fostering Open, Transparent, Competitive, and Financially Sound Markets”, United Nations Plaza, New York, NY – June 7, 2018
• Google Plans Not to Renew Its Contract for Project Maven, a Controversial Pentagon Drone AI Imaging Program – June 2, 2018
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – May 9, 2018
• Singularity Hypotheses Analysis – May 2, 2018
• Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body – April 25, 2018
• Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos – April 21, 2018
• A Global Arms Race for Killer Robots Is Transforming Warfare – April 12, 2018
• What Will Our Society Look Like When Artificial Intelligence Is Everywhere? – March 21, 2018
• Gut microbes are vulnerable to wide range of drugs – March 21, 2018
• Where Blade Runner began: 50 years of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – March 8, 2018
• AI vs. Lawyers – February 28, 2018
• The venue for Grand futures and existential… – January 26, 2018
• What is the next stage in human evolution? – January 25, 2018
• Singularity Hypotheses Photo – January 18, 2018
• Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans – January 17, 2018
• Wildfires spread in California – December 10, 2017
• AlphaZero AI beats champion chess program after teaching itself in four hours – December 8, 2017
• Google’s AI builds its own AI child and it’s better than anything humans have made – December 4, 2017
• Chinese robot becomes world’s first machine to pass medical exam – November 19, 2017
• AP Exclusive: US scientists try 1st gene editing in the body – November 15, 2017
• Waymo makes history testing on public roads with no one at the wheel – November 7, 2017
• The robot lawyers are here and winning – November 1, 2017
• Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to robot Sophia – October 29, 2017
• Saudi Arabia becomes first country to grant citizenship to a robot – October 28, 2017
• Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity – October 18, 2017
• IMF Head: Cryptocurrency could be the future. Really – October 3, 2017
• Useful Idiots: A wonderful guide to how Russian bots synchronized with far right trolls to target German election – September 25, 2017
• When a tanker vanishes, all the evidence points to Russia – September 25, 2017
• Hyperloop WARR pod run to 201 mph (324 km/h) in 0.8 mile near vacuum tube – August 30, 2017
• What would happen if we upload our brains to computers? – August 29, 2017
• Ethereum’s Trading Volumes Surpass Bitcoin’s For the First Time – May 30, 2017
• Cybercrime: A Black Market Price List From The Dark Web – May 18, 2017
• The True Scale Multiplication Grid – May 3, 2017
• Towards a lip-reading computer – March 17, 2017
• A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking – February 21, 2017
• Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts – January 28, 2017
• Tesla Autopilot’s new radar technology predicts an accident caught on dashcam; – December 27, 2016
• Rocket AI: 2016’s Most Notorious AI Launch and the Problem with AI Hype – The Mission – Medium – December 15, 2016
• Unless It Changes, Capitalism Will Starve Humanity By 2050 – November 7, 2016
• “The best or worst thing to happen to humanity” — Stephen Hawking launches Centre for the Future of Intelligence – October 20, 2016
• Sterling’s Flash Crash was long overdue—and there will be many more – October 10, 2016
• More Concern From Silicon Valley Donors About the Risks of Artificial Intelligence – October 8, 2016
• The UK military wants your ideas for how to build swarms of attack drones – October 5, 2016
• Alvin Toffler, the celebrated author of ‘Future Shock’, died on 27 June at age 87 – August 26, 2016
• Uber Debuts Its First Fleet of Driverless Cars in Pittsburgh – August 22, 2016
• Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on – July 27, 2016
• The Threats That Artificial Intelligence Researchers Actually Worry About – July 13, 2016
• Singularity Hypotheses – July 6, 2016
• Man of the “Future Shock”: Remembering Alvin Toffler – June 30, 2016
• AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation – June 30, 2016
• Stephen Hawking warns of ‘AI arms race’ – and reveals what most mystifies him – June 28, 2016
• Moscow to explore high-speed Hyperloop commuter transport system – June 22, 2016
• The Singularity Controversy – June 13, 2016
• Drone Swarms Are The Next Big Thing In Drone Warfare – June 13, 2016
• A computer that uses 8-inch floppy disks “coordinates the operational functions“ for nuclear forces – May 26, 2016
• The Father of Futarchy Has an Idea to Reshape DAO Governance – May 25, 2016
• Declassified US Nuclear Targets – May 6, 2016
• Americans Distracted By The Transgender Bathroom Argument While 3 Nuclear Disasters Unfold – May 5, 2016
• An Autonomous Robot Surgeon Just Beat A Human Surgeon At Their Job – May 5, 2016
• Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence – May 4, 2016
• SpaceX Photo – April 27, 2016
• Adelaide AI pioneer says Terminator-like takeover unlikely – April 25, 2016
• This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published – April 13, 2016
• Imperial opens UK’s first synthetic-biology foundry – April 8, 2016
• The Singularity Controversy: 3 years later (A London Futurists Event) – April 7, 2016
• Researchers have worked out how to mind control cockroaches – April 1, 2016
• South Korea trumpets $860-million AI fund after AlphaGo ‘shock’ – March 18, 2016
• Google says it bears ‘some responsibility’ after self-driving car hit bus – March 1, 2016
• Who’s to Blame (Part 1): The Legal Vacuum Surrounding Autonomous Weapons – February 5, 2016
• The Technological Singularity: A Definition – January 29, 2016
• Google DeepMind – January 27, 2016
• The Rise of the Artificially Intelligent Hedge Fund – January 25, 2016
• The Singularity Controversy, Part I: Lessons Learned and Open Questions: Conclusions from the Battle on the Legitimacy of the Debate – January 15, 2016
• Hackers caused a blackout for the first time, researchers say – January 6, 2016
• Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point – January 2, 2016
• Register Christmas Lecture — Anders Sandberg on Transhumanism – January 1, 2016
• Think-tank dismisses leading AI researchers as luddites – December 25, 2015
• The 3 biggest misconceptions about artificial intelligence, according to Facebook’s expert – December 18, 2015
• Ethics on the near-future battlefield – December 17, 2015
• Pentagon Seeks $12 -$15 Billion for AI Weapons Research – December 16, 2015
• Britain should lead way on genetically engineered babies, says Chief Scientific Adviser – December 11, 2015
• Cambridge University launches £10 million AI research centre, to ‘move away from science fiction’ – December 3, 2015
• What Passing a Key CO2 Mark Means to Climate Scientists – November 29, 2015
• The Imminent, the Possible, and the Irreversible: The Disruptive Potential of Artificial Intelligence – November 9, 2015
• U.S. and China Seek Arms Deal for Cyberspace – October 23, 2015
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – October 20, 2015
• Nick Bostrom sets out threats from future technologies at UN meeting – October 14, 2015
• Alaska mulls extra oil drilling to cope with climate change – October 14, 2015
• Celebrating the 10 Year Anniversary of book The Singularity Is Near – October 6, 2015
• Tomorrow’s Terrorist – September 28, 2015
• NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars – September 28, 2015
• Switzerland Will Host the First Bionic Olympics in 2016 – September 27, 2015
• Turing Tests in the Creative Arts – September 26, 2015
• Hooked-up human brains play telepathic ‘20 Questions’ – September 24, 2015
• ‘Tree of life’ for 2.3 million species released – September 20, 2015
• Once again, Dilbert explains it perfectly – September 3, 2015
• Edge Master Class 2015: Philip Tetlock: A Short Course in Superforecasting – August 25, 2015
• July Was Hottest Month on Record – August 20, 2015
• Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data – August 18, 2015
• Hackers to Military: Replace Us With Robots? Ha! – August 10, 2015
• Is Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Possible? – August 8, 2015
• The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment – November 9, 2010
• Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Call for Papers – April 2, 2010