Audrey Watters

This post first appeared on aud.life Do we love robots because we hate ourselves? This Surveillance Drone Never Needs to Land Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them Elon Musk Admits Humans Can’t Be Trusted with Tesla’s Autopilot Feature Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in U.S. Robot...

Travel Nope Upcoming week: Nope Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter My Latest Book: Claim Your Domain Essays Elsewhere Ed-Tech Funding: The Halloween Edition on matrix.hackeducation.com Speaking Nope Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Visualizing the Educational Industrial Complex (Poorly) The Revenge of the...

This post first appeared on aud.life Inside the Hunt for the ‘Master Algorithm’ of Artificial Intelligence Inside the surprisingly sexist world of artificial intelligence (I’m sorry. But why are we surprised?) ‘Killer Robots’ Must Be Stopped, Activists Say Why We Should Welcome Our New Robot Overlords Should We Be Excited...

Travel Olympia, WA and Hermosa Beach, CA. Upcoming week: No travel. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter The Algorithmic Future of Education The Web We Need to Give to Students Essays Elsewhere Fragments from South Africa on audreywatters.com The Algorithmic Future of Education on educationfuturism.com The...

This post first appeared on aud.life (I think) I’m done with speaking engagements for the year. As I did last year, I’m going to publish my talks as a book. And as it’s a follow-up to last year’s book, I’m calling it The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology....

This post first appeared on aud.life Americans Are More Afraid of Robots Than Death Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill This News-Writing Bot Is Now Free for Everyone Is Twitter Censoring a Blockbuster Report on US Drone Assassinations? Obama’s coming for your Christmas drones Got a drone? You’ll...

This post first appeared on aud.life In May 1999, i pulled my kid out of kindergarten early so we could see Star Wars Episode 1 on opening day. (his teacher was so pissed.) I was pissed; the movie was terrible. nonetheless i just bought tickets for opening day of Episode...

This post first appeared on aud.life The last couple of workshops that I've given have been fairly technical – GitHub for Beginners sort of thing. But I wasn’t sure how technical I could or should be for the ICDE crowd. Plus the title I’d been assigned was “The History of...

Travel Sun City. Pretoria. Upcoming week: Hermosa Beach. Olympia. Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Technology Imperialism, the Californian Ideology, and the Future of Higher Education Essays Elsewhere Nope. Speaking I gave a keynote at ICDE (see transcript above). I led a workshop at ICDE on...

I just got home following a 16 hour flight from Johannesburg to Atlanta, then another 5 from Atlanta to LA. I’m exhausted, but I need to write some of this down. I never imagined I'd get to visit Africa. I never thought I'd go to South Africa. I was first...