Audrey Watters

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...

This post first appeared on aud.life The Drone Papers It’s not AI until a robot can take an acid trip Firms Pit Artificial Intelligence Against Hacking Threats The Future of Work: Managing the Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence What to Think About Machines That Think: Leading Thinkers on Artificial...

Travel Barcelona Upcoming week: Sun City Hack Education Hack Education Weekly News Hack Education Weekly Newsletter Minimum Viable Ed-Tech: The VR Edition Essays Elsewhere The Functions of Education Technology Criticism on boundary2.org Speaking Nope. Known Notes and Fragments The Week in Robots Ed-Tech as D&D A Proposal for Proponents of...

This post first appeared on aud.life Stephen Hawking: robots could give us all material abundance, unless rich people hoard all the wealth Robot See, Robot Do: How Robots Can Learn New Tasks by Observing Computer Scientists Wield Artificial Intelligence to Battle Tax Evasion Anti-surveillance activists send a drone to pamphlet-bomb...

This post first appeared on aud.life I’m supposed to run a workshop next week in Sun City, and I really have no idea what I’m going to say or what we’re going to do. The title is something about the hype and hope and history of ed-tech. Not sure how...

This post first appeared on aud.life I left this comment for "A Proposal for Proponents of Ed Tech" -- it's a reminder that I wish Known would be a federated system for commenting, so that if I left a comment on a site I would always have a version here....