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  • Vox
  • 2020
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How Virtual Reality Tricks Your Brain

Even virtual realities with unrealistic yet believable graphics are able to fool the brain’s sense of perception into believing that the digital environment still operates under the same rules as the real world. Connecting the technologies directly to one’s senses is more immersive than looking at a screen; although human brains have been able to process flat images for a long time, the direct sight connection to two screens with virtual reality makes perception a bit more muddled.

  • Vox
  • 2020
  • 12 min
  • Wired
  • 2018
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How Cops Are Using Algorithms to Predict Crimes

This video offers a basic introduction to the use of machine learning in predictive policing, and how this disproportionately affects low income communities and communities of color.

  • Wired
  • 2018
  • 5 min
  • Big Think
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How sci-fi helps humanity avoid species-level mistakes

This video, narrated by science fiction author Ken MacLeod, explains how the cultural critiques presented in science fiction can be helpful in guiding inventors through how they might invent ethically, and what the primary societal concerns of a certain invention would be. Uses the example of robots as representative of labor issues to make the case that while science fiction plays a role in inspiring inventors and engineers, it should also lead them to question how technologies can be deployed ethically in different societal contexts.

  • Big Think
  • 33 min
  • Scientific American
  • 2020
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To Make a DeepFake

In conjunction with Scientific American, this thirty minute documentary brings the film In Event of Moon Disaster to a group of experts on AI, digital privacy, law, and human rights to gauge their reaction on the film, and to provide context on this new technology—its perils, its potential, and the possibilities of this brave, new digital world, where every pixel that moves past our collective eyes is potentially up for grabs.

  • Scientific American
  • 2020