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Irina Raicu

Irina Raicu

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Latest articles by Irina Raicu

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Artificial intelligence is forcing us to work harder to define human intelligence  — and to fight to defend itArtificial intelligence is forcing us to work harder to define human intelligence  — and to fight to defend it
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Think like nobody’s strapping a band around your head to collect information about your thinking.

By Irina Raicu
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We need to take a vacation from social mediaWe need to take a vacation from social media
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Various platforms — and Facebook especially — are, weirdly, both a kind of diary and a public performance.

By Irina Raicu
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Is it time to separate the news from the Facebook newsfeed?Is it time to separate the news from the Facebook newsfeed?
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The last thing we need — and the last thing we should want — is a “personalized newspaper.”

By Irina Raicu
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Young adults take more security measures for their online privacy than their eldersYoung adults take more security measures for their online privacy than their elders
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The attitudes, concerns and practices of 13-year-olds are, as you might imagine, quite different from those of 35-year-olds.

By Irina Raicu
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Modern variations on the ‘Trolley Problem’ memeModern variations on the ‘Trolley Problem’ meme
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Emerging technologies mean new ethical dilemmas: How would you answer the Drone Problem or the Tesla Driverless Mode Problem?

By Irina Raicu
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On the Ethics of Online ShamingOn the Ethics of Online Shaming
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Is online shaming just a new version of something that humans have always done, or is it substantially different now that the shaming is taking place via the Internet?

By Irina Raicu
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Metaphors of Big DataMetaphors of Big Data
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What do bacon, oil, tsunamis, exhaust, deluges, nuclear waste and teenage sex have in common?

By Irina Raicu
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The Right to Be Forgotten, the Privilege to Be RememberedThe Right to Be Forgotten, the Privilege to Be Remembered
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Is being easily linked -- forever, to certain search engine results -- being “remembered”?

By Irina Raicu
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MetamorphosisMetamorphosis
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When Sam Gregorsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he reached for his e-reader ...

By Irina Raicu
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“For These Times”: Dickens on Big Data“For These Times”: Dickens on Big Data
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“Supposing we were to reserve our arithmetic for material objects, and to govern these awful unknown quantities [i.e., human beings] by other means!”

By Irina Raicu