From douglas at publicsphereproject.org Fri Jun 1 12:01:09 2018 From: douglas at publicsphereproject.org (Doug Schuler) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 12:01:09 -0700 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: Pledge against autonomous weapons - new FLI initiative In-Reply-To: <20180601182609.7836.631188663.swift@futureoflifeinstitute.activehosted.com> References: <20180601182609.7836.631188663.swift@futureoflifeinstitute.activehosted.com> Message-ID: FYI. Autonomous weapons aren't good examples of CI4CG! — Doug ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lucas Perry Date: Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:25 AM Subject: Pledge against autonomous weapons - new FLI initiative To: Douglas Schuler *Hello,There has been significant progress, thanks to people like you, in calling attention to the dangers of autonomous weapons. From the viral Slaughterbots video to the Google employee letter protesting military contracting to the successful boycott of KAIST's (now aborted) autonomous weapons effort to the ongoing negotiations at the United Nations , the belief is deepening and spreading that we must act now to avoid a potentially devastating arms race in an unprecedented new type of weapon of mass destruction.Taking a next step, FLI is launching an initiative calling on companies, organizations, leaders, policymakers and others to pledge that they will not participate in the development, production, or deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. This will send a powerful message that these are weapons we can, and should, choose not to loose on the world. We’re writing to invite you to:a) Sign the pledge as an individual !andb) Sign the pledge on behalf of your organization ! If you are in a leadership or managerial role at an organization that you think may be willing to sign the pledge (either now or after some internal discussion) please sign as an organization here and make sure to include an email address. We will follow up with you and/or the organization.Will you join Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio, Meredith Whittaker, Ryan Gariepy, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Jaan Tallinn, Anca Dragan, and many others in this pledge against lethal autonomous weapons? Thanks again for your support! The Future of Life Institute Team* We take your privacy seriously. If you prefer not to receive emails like this one in the future, just let us know. Sent to: douglas at publicsphereproject.org Unsubscribe Future of Life Institute, PO Box 454, Winchester, MA 01890, United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.foth at qut.edu.au Tue Jun 26 17:29:43 2018 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:29:43 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] How Collective Intelligence Could Transform Politics Message-ID: <36CC90A4-1DFF-452D-85FC-821C3589E926@qut.edu.au> fyi How Collective Intelligence Could Transform Politics by The GovLab cheers, marcus -- Prof. Marcus Foth FACS Professor of Urban Informatics QUT Design Lab, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – qut.design Honorary Professor, School of Communication & Culture Aarhus University, Denmark Please support our crowdfunding campaign to save wombats from mange: http://bit.ly/saveourwombats -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: