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Panelists: Daniel Kahneman, Gary Marcus, Susan Schneider, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Jaan Tallinn Filmed October 2016.

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Facebook’s machine learning pipeline—from research to production—is aimed at an AI future.

In order to discuss human rights in the context of technology ethics, we need to know exactly what we mean when we refer to human rights.