Raymond Ruyer Test Drives a Tesla

Author: Ashley Woodward Recently it seems that everyone has been jumping on the AI bandwagon. The French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987) made a pretty good head start when, in 1954, he published his book Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. The term Artificial Intelligence had not even been invented yet (that came in 1956), but …

Dominic Smith at the World Ethical Data Forum

Dom Smith from Philosophy at Dundee recently had the pleasure of contributing to the World Ethical Data Forum, 26-28th Oct, 2022 (https://worldethicaldataforum.org/). The WEDF is an international event bringing together hundreds of scholars, programmers and practitioners to discuss issues surrounding data acces and the impacts of datafication in the contemporary Internet age. Dom spoke with his colleague Dr …