A recent article in ‘Wired’, entitled ‘Silicon Valley’s Secret Philosophers Should Share Their Work’, by Alexis Papazoglou, stirred my interest. I was as curious as the author to learn how so-called ‘tech giants’ embed philosophers and ethicists into their programmes – how they are recruited,...

PRESENTATION FOR THE V4/EU SUMMER SCHOOL GIVEN AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF PUBLIC SERVICE BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 9th JULY 2019...

In April 2019, the AI Forum Hungary facilitated a morning briefing programm for key staff of the Hungarian National Bank at their headquarters in Budapest....

Many years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, wrote a compelling account of the impact of modernity on the human race entitled ‘The Human Condition: A study of the Central Dilemmas Facing Modern Man.”  If nothing else, the book was prescient: it commented on the potentially...

RESEARCH PROPOSAL The implication of the continuing evolution of artificial intelligence for society has yet to be fully appreciated in Hungary.  That does not imply that people are totally unfamiliar with the basic contours of machine intelligence but rather that how it might be used and...

by Nathaniel Hupert, MD MPH People who are either very lucky or very unlucky don’t have a doctor.  If you do have one, chances are she or he is intelligent, at a minimum in the sense of being competent at carrying out an integrated, purpose-driven set...