Computational Power and the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence

no code implementations • 23 Mar 2018 • Tim Hwang

Machine learning is a computational process.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

The DARPA Twitter Bot Challenge

no code implementations • 20 Jan 2016 • V. S. Subrahmanian, Amos Azaria, Skylar Durst, Vadim Kagan, Aram Galstyan, Kristina Lerman, Linhong Zhu, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Andrew Stevens, Alexander Dekhtyar, Shuyang Gao, Tad Hogg, Farshad Kooti, Yan Liu, Onur Varol, Prashant Shiralkar, Vinod Vydiswaran, Qiaozhu Mei, Tim Hwang

A number of organizations ranging from terrorist groups such as ISIS to politicians and nation states reportedly conduct explicit campaigns to influence opinion on social media, posing a risk to democratic processes.