In response to the overwhelming need for trust enhancements to Contact Tracing solutions around the World, ForHumanity is pleased to introduce Independent Audit and Governance of Contact Tracing. We offer to provide each contact tracing authority with a dedicated independent board of governance. The board exists to provide independent oversight…

Contact Tracing is the COVID19 rage. Google and Apple have jumped into the fray, collaborating on enabling our smartphones to engage in contact tracing. Together this represents approximately 67% of the smartphone market, depending on your jurisdiction. A robust portion of the smartphone market, insufficient on to itself, but robust…

The lesson we will learn from this virus and the handling of it by health officials and politicians will be far reaching. We will react on the fly as well as analyzing our response over the coming years. First order effects are the facts, details and analysis directly attributable to…

As we approach the launch of Independent Audit of AI Systems, my mind has moved forward to execution. “How” are we going to make this effort successful? We have to succeed, the world, humanity needs an infrastructure of trust to surround and cradle our autonomous systems comprehensively in order for…

This article was a portion of ForHumanity’s response to the NYC Economic Development Corp’s Request for Expressions of Interest regarding their proposed Center for Responsible AI. The submission was a joint submission with The Future Society and Michelle Calabro. Independent Audit is offered, as the solution for the framwork, guidelines…

The AI community remains “abuzz”, as DeepMind continues to announce AlphaGo Zero successes. For the uninitiated, DeepMind created a new AI/machine learning program designed to improve upon its first iteration, AlphaGo, which had successfully bested the human world champions at the ancient game of Go. Why the buzz? Well AlphaGo…

For those who have followed ForHumanity, you know that we have been developing and promoting the concept of Independent Audit of AI systems. If you are new to the concept of Independent Audit, the basics can be found here: AI Safety — The Concept of Independent Audit For months I have regularly tweeted a response to my colleagues in the AI Safety community about being a supporter of…medium.com and here:

I was born and raised in the West, steeped in Capitalism, market economies and the power of supply and demand. As I began to consider the concept of Technological Unemployment, I wrote about Capitalism having an “end-game”. https://medium.com/@ForHumanity_Org/capitalism-aritifical-intelligence-robotics-socialism-universal-basic-income-740cc3f1c41e I believe that remains true. I believe that if left to its…

I suspect this is not an idea that many have considered. To date, as a society we really have not appreciated how technological change occurs and we certainly have rarely considered the governance of new change. When we have a discovery or an advancement of science, like all other inventions…