LibGuides: Theory of Knowledge: Knowledge and Technology

Connecting with the Core

Key Concepts

Privacy
Artificial Intelligence

What are the ethics of data collection? Who bears the burden? How do we balance privacy concerns with the practical benefits of data-gathering?

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Can a machine be said to "KNOW" something?

Google Fires Engineer who says AI is sentient
Lemoine, an engineer for Google’s responsible AI organisation, described the system he has been working on as sentient, with a perception of, and ability to express, thoughts and feelings that was equivalent to a human child.
You are not a parrot. And ChatGPT is not a human
this is technology that really encourages people to interpret it as if there were an agent in there with ideas and thoughts and credibility and stuff like that.’” Why is the tech designed like this? Why try to make users believe the bot has intention, that it’s like us?
Meet the AI expert who says we should stop using AI so much
AI is just math. I don’t think that everything in the world should be governed by math. Computers are really good at solving mathematical issues. But they are not very good at solving social issues, yet they are being applied to social problems.

Things that make you go hmmm....

Can a machine ever "know" something? Can a machine be "human"?

Is knowledge inherently human? What does it mean to "create'?

What role do emotions play in making ethical decisions?

Is technology merely an extension to the human senses or does it help us see the world in new ways?

Can technology help us connect to history?

How should we engage with knowledge from the Internet?

Does technology improve perspective?

Should innovators be responsible for the consequences of technology they develop?

How evolving human technology has impacted whales in different ways, leading them to alter their culture through communication.

Self Driving Cars and Ethics
Wikipedia and Knowledge
How has technology impacted collective memory and how knowledge is preserved?
The Knowledge Creating Company
Does technology allow knowledge to reside outside of human knowers? What is the difference between data, information and knowledge?
Digital hoarding means we can film, photograph or stream everything but risk experiencing nothing
Does technology support or prevent us from accessing knowledge about the world?
All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines
We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That's all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails?
How We Make Gods
How are online or virtual communities similar to/different from “traditional” communities of knowers?
What Chat GPT and AI means for science
How can we figure out which aspects of knowing to cognitively offload?
A Conversation with Bing's Chatbot left me deeply disturbed
Why does AI struggle to understand human morality? Who should be responsible for the development of ‘ethical’ technology?