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  • The technology ‘featured’ in each short story in Autonomous Decisions

    People’s attention span is limited, as is their time, and I’ve received several requests about revealing which computing (including AI) or IT is covered in which short story included in Autonomous Decisions: computing quandaries in short fiction so they can take their pick or at least prioritise accordingly. Here it goes: Chapter 1: Melokuhle –…

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  • Background readings to ‘Adjudication of the Algo Aunt’

    The appendix of Autonomous Decisions links to basic information about the underlying issues that the stories were inspired by and lists a few discussion questions, as a starting point for looking into the non-fiction side of it all. For the “Adjudication of the Algo Aunt” short story, a key concept is algorithmic domination through automated…

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  • Autonomous Decisions hit the shelves

    The Autonomous Decisions: computing quandaries in short fiction was spotted on the shelves in the bookshop! Exclusive Books V&A Waterfront filed it under African Fiction and EB Cavendish has it in the sci-fi section. Here are a few photos.

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Autonomous Decisions hit the shelves

Ethics Lab’s Moseme on questions about implants

Talk at the EthicsLab@UCT’s Neuroscience Institute

Slides of the DAMA SA talk about modelling languages