Dead Bots and Data Sets.
Who owns the deceased? Who knows the deceased? Who gets to simulate the deceased? Do we ever fully know someone? Can the ‘grief bot’ companies really replicate? Do they have the right data? Do they have the rights to the data?
Here are 10 minutes of ‘starter’ thoughts on the subject.
https://open.substack.com/pub/nudgethefuture/p/our-data-our-future-a-short-podcast-2d7
As part of my applied science fiction work, I was involved in a project to look at AI-driven tools in children’s mental healthcare.
Recently, a paper about the project has been published.
This is the abstract:
Artificial intelligence may be able to improve the efficiency, accuracy and predictiveness of mental health assessments, and public perspectives are crucial to ensuring these tools are implemented with fairness and accountability. We developed an artificial intelligence-driven tool to automatically analyse parents’ speech data, which if successful could be implemented in children and young people’s mental health assessments. To engage stakeholders with this project, we worked with a science fiction writer to produce two stories about possible futures of our tool, which we discussed in workshops with young people and parents. Here, we summarise key themes arising from this novel method of engaging the public in mental health research, and highlight considerations for clinicians and researchers creating novel technologies for children and young people’s mental healthcare.
The full paper can be read here: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/camh.70045
Article in the Sun on future of cities