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Title: Developing Ethical Intelligence
Published: 2017-03-30
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMqggpYLUio
Title: Developing Ethical Intelligence
Published: 2017-03-30
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMqggpYLUio
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Hey again I'm Jeff to Risso and welcome to another edition of mine hack today on mind hack family of CIA consultant Susie run over his disappearance using artificial intelligence to conserve the natural world and even musk watches a venture to merge a I with the human brain we begin today by looking at an article in the March twenty first twenty seventeen edition of The New York2/45
Times by Barry Meier the article is entitled family of CIA consultant Susie run over his disappearance the article begins the family of a part time consultant for the CIA who vanished a decade ago in Iran filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against that country claiming that it used a campaign of deception and lies to conceal its role in the imprisonment for those of you who are unfamiliar3/45
with the story of Robert Levinson it's outlined in berry Myers book entitled missing man the American spy who vanished in Iran Bob Levinson is a former D. E. A. an FBI agent who turned private investigator he disappeared on March ninth two thousand seven when visiting Iran's Kish island while supposedly researching a cigarette smuggling case Barry Meyer points out that he investigated this cigarette smuggling angle and4/45
found it to be a red herring what he also found true sources within Bob Levinson's family was evidence that Levinson was working as a consultant for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States Furthermore Meyer discovers that Robert Levinson was last seen at a hotel called Mariane on Kish island where he was attempting to recruit a U. S. born assassin to be a CIA asset inside5/45
of Iran Bob Levinson has not been seen since with the exception of a video released in two thousand ten where he pleaded for the United States to rescue him from captivity and some photographs in two thousand eleven which portrayed Levinson into Guantanamo style jumpsuit I had a similar message what Barry Meyer points out is the moral ambiguity on both sides of the story while all this6/45
is going on the government of Iran is denying any knowledge of Levinson's capture whatsoever and Meyer says that there's evidence to conclude that that could not be the case however on the other hand Meyer also points out that the cigarette smuggling investigation was a cover story and that the federal bureau of investigations has declined to give Levinson's family any information about their ongoing investigation into his7/45
disappearance further adding insult to injury a recent negotiation by the Obama administration to release American hostages from Iran did not include Robert Levinson my or even go so far as to conclude that Levinson and his family are part of collateral damage of the United States intelligence strategy that cares more about achieving their agendas in foreign policy than it does about giving closure to a family of8/45
a man who served his country for thirty three years Myers main question is why why can't Robert Levinson Staley know the truth about his capture and possibly his subsequent death fast forward to today when the lawyer for the Levinson family David McGee has brought a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the family insisting that Iran through their campaign of disinformation about their knowledge of Levinson9/45
has created emotional distress for the family though spokespeople for the Iranian government have still declined to comment the lawsuit asserts that the FBI has concluded that the hostage videotape and photographs neither of which provided clues about his captor's identity were part of any running an attempt to create a false scenario that Robert Levinson was being held by some other country Lindsay run an FBI spokeswoman declined10/45
to comment on any involvement of Iranian officials in Mr Levinson's detention and capture Levinson's wife Christine filed a freedom of information act request seeking FBI documents related to the investigation but her request was denied by the FBI stating that as a matter of policy the bureau does not release documents about cases that are quote on going and that's where the moral ambiguity is really highlighted I11/45
think there seems to be evidence of deception within the Iranian government there's also clear evidence of a cover up on the part of the US government and I don't really think that that's fair to the family of this man who gave his service to this country I don't think that it be a family of this man should be given the runaround when it comes to getting12/45
closure on the disappearance of someone who they left in my view there seems to be a tendency of US officials and media spokespeople promoting the idea that only foreign countries use tactics of disinformation and deception to wage warfare on their enemies so you may be asking does the United States have a history of using tactics of disinformation and psychological warfare on their enemies that question brings13/45
us to today's mind hack flashback today we flash back to September nineteen fifty a group called the Hukbalahap rebellion or hug rebellion is threatening the power of the U. S. backed government in the Philippines then Filipino president of BTO query no personally request the presence of airforce officer and %HESITATION SS operative ed blades Dale Lansdale along with Filipino defense minister Ramon Magsaysay created a psychological operations14/45
division called the civil affairs office in order to use unconventional psychological tactics to quell the hug rebellion one such tactic played on the hook rebels belief in a vampire like creature called the I swung in his memoir entitled in the midst of wars and Americans mission to Southeast Asia Lansdale recounts the operation a combat sigh war squad was brought in if planted stories about town residents15/45
of a nice one living on the hill where the hawks were based two nights later after giving the stories time to circulate among hoped sympathizers in the town and make their way up to the hill camp the sci war squad set up an ambush along the trail used by the hawks when a hug patrol came along the trail the ambushers silently snatched the last man of16/45
the patrol their move unseen in the dark knight they punctured his neck with two holes vampire fashion held the body up by the heels drained of blood and put the corpse back on the trail when the hawks returned to look for the missing man and down their blood this comrade every member of the patrol believes that the US Juan had got him and that one of17/45
them would be next if they remain on that hill when daylight came the whole hog squadrons moved out of the vicinity this tactic was one of many psychological tactics used by Lansdale and his civil affairs office in the Philippines lance ito went on to continue this type of work in Vietnam and then Cuba he is referred to by former CIA director William Colby has one of18/45
the greatest spies in history and that is today's my attack flash our next article today was brought to my attention by news but analyst Eric Moshe a who has a great collection of articles posted on news but that I encourage you to check out the article is in Atlantic magazine published on March twenty fourth twenty seventeen the title is artificial intelligence the park Rangers of the19/45
improper scene now if you're like me you didn't know what the word improper seen men so I had to look it up and drop a scene refers to the period of time during which human activity has been the dominant influence on the climate and the environment though I'm not sure how one would go about proving that humans are the dominant influence the article begins by describing20/45
a project where autonomous killer robots are involved in a conservation effort to save the Great Barrier Reef their target is the crown of thorns starfish which is seen as a threat to the barrier reef a team of Australian scientists has developed intelligent underwater robots called hot spots that can legally inject the starfish without human intervention while the author of this article points out that this effort21/45
to save the Great Barrier Reef will probably be unsuccessful he's interested in this approach of using autonomous artificial intelligence in efforts to conserve the environment he says the work of conservationists weekly involves reducing human influence but all of these measures involve human action the cuts but they're different they're designed ultimately to operate without us the article then goes on to talk about an intriguing thought experiment22/45
paper which was created by a landscape architect a historian and an ecologist entitled designing autonomy opportunities for new wildness in the anthropocene they have taken this idea to its logical extreme by creating what they call a while this creator hypothetical artificial intelligence that would up autonomously protect wild spaces this machine would develop its own strategies independent of human influence that it would then implement in order23/45
to serve its goal of protecting nature in their view this paper is not meant to promote an idea which is necessarily technologically or financially feasible at this time but simply to explore the idea and also it's ethical implications the ecologist of the group Ellis elaborates on this point he says when people try to maintain natural places there's a tendency to end up over curating them and24/45
he points to the implementation of the cot spot strategy in Australia as an example of this over curation the author of the article ed young then goes on to elaborate on the hypothesis of how artificial intelligence could be a revolutionary innovation in the field of conservation he cites the example of Google's Alfa go system which was able to defeat the best human go players in the25/45
world because it made moves that no human whatever thing to make and that is exactly the reason why Earl Ellis the colleges have the group is extremely excited about this possibility there's already some research moving in this direction the landscape architect of the group Bradley Cantrell is already working on prototypes for intelligently controlling river systems he wants to create a more dynamic system involving sensors and26/45
structures that could more subtly manipulate the flow of water and the pattern of sediment he says the idea isn't to build one solution but something that constantly updates itself the author then list several other technologies that can be in the category of using artificial intelligence for conserving nature drones I can plant trees artificial pollinators swarms of oceanic vehicles for cleaning up oil spills we're not gonna27/45
miss we'd punching farm by he also this geo engineering in this category now this is where I kind of think that we should be a little more careful in bundle even certain technologies into certain baskets in labeling them green and therefore possibly ignoring the risks that they pose to our human systems Pacific glee I'm concerned that the practice of geo engineering which is an attempt to28/45
counter quote climate change by manipulating the environment may have many risks that outweigh the possible benefits although geo engineering is framed as an attempt to counter climate change often left out of the discussion is the fact that governments and corporations have been using the weather modification as a tool since the nineteen fifties another ecologist named Eric Higgs quoted in the article points out that conservationists have29/45
learned the hard way that protecting nature is only possible if people are invested in caring for their land we're protecting local animals and I think that's a good point the article concludes stating that the idea of fully removing ourselves from nature is obviously unachievable and then Laura Martin the historian in the study says something that I think is really important she says instead we should be30/45
thinking critically and carefully about how to co exist with other species what I think Martin is advocating here is more of a systemic approach of looking at our human relationship with the environment and how we can adjust our human systems to better create a coexistence between ourselves and nature so my proposal upon reading this article is that there are two sections of it there's the autonomy31/45
and there's the artificial intelligence now the artificial intelligence is what made it possible for Google's Alfa go system to come up with a strategy that no human could come up with if a computer program can come up with a strategy for helping us coexist with the environment that we have previously thought of that's a good thing where I'm concerned is with the implementation if that implementation32/45
is an autonomous thing that no human agency is required for then what is to stop the computer for making the decision that humans are the problem and that humans must be destroyed many people in the comments section of this article made that very point and I think their concern is definitely a valid one my proposal would be a separation between strategy and the implementation if the33/45
artificial intelligence system can come up with a new strategy that we can never think of and then us as human beings can implement that strategy that takes away the fear factor of autonomous robots making decisions that we have no say in for me that type of compromise is something that would get us a little closer to a positive outcome for this technology the last article I34/45
wanna look at today is published in the verge on March twenty seventh twenty seventeen the title reads Ilan musk launches near a link I venture to merge the human brain with a I the article talks about the public announcement of a new company by SpaceX and Tesla founder Ely musk the company according to the article is centered on creating devices that can be implanted in the35/45
human brain with the eventual purpose of helping human beings merge with software and keep pace with advancements in artificial intelligence these enhancements the article goes on could improve memory or allow for more direct interfacing with computing devices a few things I noticed just in this very brief intro what particularly concerns me is the use of the word helping human beings as if the author assumes that36/45
that's something that we all want and further calling them enhancements is another way to give them a positive association in our minds when the technology is still in its infancy stage the article quotes Ilona mosque talking to a crowd in Dubai he says over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence it's mostly about the bandwidth he said37/45
the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself clearly output the article then goes on to point out that these types of interfaces are very rare except in the medical field where they are used as a last resort to combat certain neuro degenerative diseases in my opinion this medical last resort application is actually a possibly positive application for this technology the38/45
reason they're a last resort is that this surgery on the human brain is incredibly dangerous this is not stopped a surge of interest among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs a recent tech start up colonel founded by Brian Johnson says that it is working toward reversing the effects of near our degenerative diseases and eventually making our brains faster and smarter and more wired Johnson says kernels goal is to39/45
work with the brain the same way we work with complex biological systems like biology and genetics however neuroscience researchers are little more skeptical about the reality of implementing something like this these researchers say that our understanding about how neurons in the human brain communicate is actually very limited at this point then there's the idea of getting people to volunteer to have electronic implants placed inside their40/45
brains Blake Richards a neuroscientist an assistant professor at the university of Toronto says people are only going to be amenable to the idea of an implant if they have a very serious medical condition they might get help with most healthy individuals are uncomfortable with the idea of having a doctor crack open their school so what I'm concerned with is that again were seen you on musk41/45
who cultivates an image of being extremely cautious when it comes in the development of artificial intelligence technology seeming to frame this issue as some sort of race between artificial intelligence in humans the result of thinking about this as a race is that we may rush to make some hasty decisions and I think this merging of the human brain in the digital brain is not a decision42/45
that should be taken lightly and rushed into I also don't think that it necessarily has to be the inevitable future for humanity and I think that people who promote that idea like musk seems to be doing here are limiting the role of human free will in deciding what our future is going to be what concerns me is that this technology similar to some of the ones43/45
that we talked about in the previous article are lacking in understanding of the holistic system that they operate with it these technologies seem to be addressing the symptoms of problems rather than the causes of problems like the historian Laura Martin pointed out in the previous article we as humans have to step up and take part and participate in molding and shaping how we want this technology44/45
to interact with us and our children in the future maybe some of you out there think I'm being overly paranoid about this and if you do think that please tell me why I'm certainly open to refining my point if you further on issues like this that's it for today's edition of mind hack thanks for watching and please continue the discussion further in the comments section below45/45
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