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China Daily USA: Price of anarchy, a price worth paying
In an article for China Daily USA, Prof. Carlo Ratti of MIT and Prof. Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich argue that while the world is heading towards a data-driven optimized society, a certain amount of randomness is a fair price to pay if we would like to preserve innovation.
NRC: Meanwhile, Google is working on building an army
The daily Dutch newspaper NRC published an article in which Prof. Dirk Helbing warns against the dangers of relying too heaily on big data, and how that may lead to totalitarian systems with "little or no democratic control".
EuroScientist: Self-organised scientific crowds to remedy research bureaucracy
EuroScientist published an article discussing how to remedy research bureaucracy. In the article, the opinions and writings of Prof. Dirk Helbing in the FuturICT blog are cited, to show how bureaucracy might be hindering innovation and how to tackle this problem.
Ovi Chris Rouly gives a session at the International Congress on Agent Computing in Fairfax, Virginia (USA) on 30.11.2016
Dr. Ovi Chris Rouly will be presenting a session with the title "Designing (artificial) life: Emergent sociality and collective intelligence using situated and embodied machine intelligence" at the International Congress on Agent Computing on Wednesday, 30.11.2016. The Congress will be held at the Research Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
A seminar talk on AI and its use to control the world and behavior by Prof. Helbing at Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE) on 12.12.2016
Prof. Dr. Dirk Helbing will be giving a seminar talk with the title "How Artificial Intelligence is Used to Control the World and Our Behavior" from 17:00 to 18:30 on Monday, 12. December 2016 at the seminar room 310/311, N55, UKE Campus.