Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
While the article acknowledged the current inefficiency and shortcomings of the development of automated systems and advanced technology that relies heavily on users’ data and online statistics, it also unambiguously expresses the White House’s open-minded attitude to technological advancements. Even though titled “AI Bill”, the five pillars stated by the House are more like a pointless self-regulated document, which makes sense as a government press release, that reiterates views around data privacy, cybersecurity, and digital rights protection, things like that – nothing too surprising. The document contains vague descriptions such as “inappropriate or irrelevant data use”, “proactive and continuous measures”,
That said, this document does call for some changes, including asserting that the current long-winded data practice consent needs to be more concise and easier to understand. Interestingly, the last principle of the blueprint says “Human Alternatives, Consideration, and Fallback” specifying that one should be able to “opt-out” from automated system practices, but this idealistic case would not happen given the existing practices carried out by the tech companies under the age of digitalization – there are already so much unregulated user information online that one could easily retreat and use at his disposal. Then what are some actual legal, economic, or social effects could an official document like this one exert upon the realm?
The Strange History of the Blade Runner IP
Knowing and watched the film a couple of times since grade seven, I can resonate with Rick Liebling who has been drone to the Blade Runner IP so much, even though he argued that the adjacent productions such as books, video games, comics, could never achieve to the same height as the original 1982 film. Liebling believed that the reason why Blade Runner IP has so much expansive reach has something to do with the success of the similar Star Wars IP or that we are in the “post-Star Wars era”. However, Blade Runner IP might not be as prevalent as Star Wars IP, and the latter seems to have achieved even greater impact in the real world (i.e. TRON Lightcycle in the Disney World) than the former which is based more on textual or digital content.
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