Alec BalasescuJan 61 minWill Computers Decide Who Lives and Who Dies?While talk about a post-COVID-19 world is ripe, reflecting more the desire for an economic relaunch than the medical reality of the...
Alec BalasescuDec 30, 20201 minCovid-19 - an article from the early on-setAt the end of this tumultuous year, I like to revisit some things I wrote. This is an article from March 2020, and I think that some...
Alec BalasescuAug 4, 20193 minTrouble with Ethics First appeared on Ms.AI blog Imagine you are a doctor in an emergency setting. A patient is brought in in critical state. Your immediate...
Alec BalasescuJul 3, 20191 minAI, Climate Change, and Healthcare. Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are the two main disrupting factors in today’s global economy, despite the fact that the...
Alec BalasescuFeb 12, 20192 minThe Unequal HumanThe disruption that smart technology and AI bring is comparable in recent history with the first phases of industrialization. Social...
Alec BalasescuFeb 8, 20193 minStylish AI, Fashionable Healthcare. How Aesthetics Ease the Adoption of Innovative TechnologiesWould you wear a device that monitors your health? What if the device is a fashionable ring or earring? Recently a team of designers,...
Alec BalasescuFeb 8, 20194 minHow do Smart Cities transform politics?We live through an age of rapid techno-social transformations. Changes in technoscapes indicate also transformations of defining...
Alec BalasescuFeb 8, 20193 minDo AI have sex? And why they shouldWhat if our mind is just an (or THE) ornamental feature for sexual selection, as the beak of a toucan or the tail of a peacock? For some...
Alec BalasescuFeb 8, 20193 minPplkpr – in with the data, out with the people… … or at least, out with those that provoke you discomfort, uneasiness, or high level of stress. A fascinating application described in...
Alec BalasescuFeb 3, 20192 minMachine AnthropologyWhat could be AI/ or Machine Anthropology? The short answer: the sum of AI conversations about us, humans. As Anthropologist I am...
Alec BalasescuFeb 3, 20193 min(A)I, CitizenI live in Canada, one of the few countries that today prides itself with its political inclusion system, with its openness, and with its...
Alec BalasescuFeb 3, 20192 minThe Storyteller vs. the Narrative Generator We are beings of narration. We tell stories to ourselves in order to remind us who we are. But who we are is forever changing, as stories...
