Une courte vidéo éducative pour aider à arrêter de s'inquiéter rapidement en utilisant une méthod... more Une courte vidéo éducative pour aider à arrêter de s'inquiéter rapidement en utilisant une méthode de psychophysiophilosophie. Originaire du Japon, ce petit exercice provient d'un grand nombre d'arts de guérison maintenant étudiés et utilisés dans le monde entier. Les expériences avec ces méthodes à l'hôpital de Stanford et dans la communauté ont montré qu'elles sont utiles, nous vous encourageons à l'essayer par vous-même. Le film est bien adapté aux enfants mais est utile pour tous les groupes d'âge, y compris les adultes.
A short education video to help stop worry fast using a method from psychophysiophilosophy. Originating in Japan, this small exercise is from a large body of healing arts now studied and used all over the world. Experiences with these methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful, we encourage you to try it for yourself. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
Teaching material. A short education video to help stop worry fast using a simple easy method f... more Teaching material. A short education video to help stop worry fast using a simple easy method from psychophysiophilosophy. Patient experiences with these kinds of methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful and convent. It is also a type of sustainable healthcare. We encourage you to try it for yourself Psychophysiophiosophy is ancient, originating in Japan, but it is now studied and used all over the world. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
Educational film shows latest research linking our biological functions to compassion. The eff... more Educational film shows latest research linking our biological functions to compassion. The effects happen when receiving, giving or witnessing compassion.
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea o... more This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. The creation of Artificial Compassion is the result of two coinciding historical developments. The first is the increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. For example, we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is “plastic”. It changes constantly throughout our lives in response to our experiences. Remarkably, we also now know it is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. So, too, are the immune, endocrine, genetic, cardio and neural systems influenced and changed by our emotional experiences. This new perspective on emotions and plasticity validates much of ancient wisdom in medical systems outside th...
This brief article summarizes the novel thinking and rapid digital innovation in healthcare and h... more This brief article summarizes the novel thinking and rapid digital innovation in healthcare and healthcare education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a special issue on Education and Learning for Digital Health, created by editors Morrow, Ross and Mason. It bring insights from the works of 17 world-leading clinicians, researchers and educators from Australia, Canada, the United States and Northern Ireland on topics on e-learning, blended learning, immersive virtual reality, artificial compassion, digital simulations and virtual patients, addressing how and why health professionals learn to use emerging technologies. For example, the first article
explains how the use of virtual care, such as virtual examinations, clinical assessments, and remote patient monitoring, expanded during COVID-19 to enable continued access to
healthcare.
New developments in AI mean the world is suddenly and rapidly changing. As human interaction wit... more New developments in AI mean the world is suddenly and rapidly changing. As human interaction with humanoid robots, softbots, and digital humans become widespread, Thomas Telving, author of Killing Sophia, believes there are some serious issues we must face together. We must consider how the way we respect these artifacts may spill over into the way we treat one another. As a philosopher from Denmark, Mr. Telving has been focused on human-robot interaction, especially those robots that look like us. He opens up about how he felt interacting with a humanoid robot in Japan that was very similar to the Saudi citizen robot, Sophia. While each culture may have a unique approach to robots (and virtual bots) now that both humanoids robots and humanlike technology in general are improved by conversational software like ChatGPT, we need to face these issues or be ready for a robot bill of rights. Thomas describes such a bill of rights.
Health education innovations made during the COVID-19 pandemic represent a special contribution t... more Health education innovations made during the COVID-19 pandemic represent a special contribution to the welfare of health professionals . The editorial introduces a special issue on digital health education, with all contributions occurring during the pandemic. This time impelled further innovation in health professionals’ online learning as education providers worked tirelessly to avoid disruption to learning. The special issue advances the scientific paradigm of the discipline in four specific areas:
• Health professionals learning to adapt and use virtual care (VC)
• Digital professionalism in the use of smartphone technologies
• Preparing medical students to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
• Safe use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in professional education
Stanford Spring Symposium on Ethics in Non-Human Agents, 2016
Ethics in Non-Human Agents
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing huma... more Ethics in Non-Human Agents
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing human robot interaction, the importance of trust has been largely ignored by the AI community because the AI problems we face are indeed complicated. Advancements in brain sciences show its biochemical importance not only to our ability to succeed in Iife but also to our health. To explore this issue the talk covers some of the neuroscience discoveries and introduces a robot priest, the same one used in the robot fashion show in 2015 at the Stanford Shopping Mall. The significance of the consequences of a breakdown in trust are exemplified by the brain sciences but also socially we can see what happened with the breakdown of trust in the Catholic Church. The robot priest is on display and the architecture can be seen by looking under the robot clothing. The robot priest is designed with a raspberry pi that is not connected to the internet. Still, should we trust it? What design considerations do we need to make at the beginning of a project to maximize our trust in a system? What kinds of AI are most suitable? Keep in mind, government regulations (in the US) are often 10 years behind technology development (ref Larry Lessig).
frontiers in psychology, section on human-media interaction, 2023
This article uses a systematic scoping review of the literature to explore the possible associati... more This article uses a systematic scoping review of the literature to explore the possible association between AI technologies and compassion in healthcare. The implications of this review include: 1) In a complex adaptive system such as healthcare, human-AI intelligent caring will need to be implemented, not as an ideology, but through strategic choices, incentives, regulation, professional education, and training, as well as through joined up thinking about human-AI intelligent caring. 2) Research funders can encourage research and development into the topic of AI technologies and compassion as a system of human-AI intelligent caring. 3) Educators, technologists, and health professionals can inform themselves about the system of human-AI intelligent caring.
Exploring the possible association between AI and compassion is important because AI mediates every area of healthcare systems (e.g., complex systems involving purchasers, providers, payers, patients, and so on) by powering search engines, analysing data and making recommendations (Bajwa et al., 2021), as well as through clinical and health-related applications (Davenport and Kalakota, 2019).
The theme of Season 4 of RADIO AI is about the Great Digital Hustle and this episode is on Data C... more The theme of Season 4 of RADIO AI is about the Great Digital Hustle and this episode is on Data Collection. From your credit card history to your phone, AI’s involvement in your data and privacy is rising. Maintaining data privacy can feel like Mission Impossible. Have you ever wondered how your data is collected? A “free” user account is just one way your data is collected. In this 2-part RADIO AI podcast on AI and Data Collection we take on what can only be called The Digital Hustle by arming ourselves with knowledge on data collection. In Part 1 we learn 10 ways our data is collected and used from every day life.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 2022
Contribute to APA's Response to Federal Agency Request for Information
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE... more Contribute to APA's Response to Federal Agency Request for Information
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Deadline to submit comments to APA: March 4, 2022. Access APA Services' comment form here.
Topics solicited: The Administration is seeking to update the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, including but not limited to:
· How AI R&D can help address harms due to disparate treatment of different demographic groups;
· Research that informs the intersection of AI R&D and application with privacy and civil liberties;
· AI R&D to help address the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in the AI workforce; and
· AI R&D to evaluate and address bias, equity, or other concerns related to the development, use, and impact of AI.
National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Plan , 2019
A Report by the SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE of the
NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ... more A Report by the SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE of the NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL. Original document is from 2016. This is an updated version of that 2016 document and is released in 2019. Work under the Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Applied Artificial Intelligence:An International Journal; Special Issue on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 1995
This paper describes the cooperative interpretation of data from a global network of seismic stat... more This paper describes the cooperative interpretation of data from a global network of seismic stations in the context of nuclear test ban treaty verification. The problem, as solved by humans, involves the cooperation of a community of seismologists and the intellectual mechanism of assumption-based reasoning. Our computational agents cooperate by exchanging partial results that act as clues or heuristics about what assumptions to make and where to apply computationally expensive signal-processing algorithms, thus improving the quality of the global solution.
IAAI/AAAI-22 Opening Remarks for PodCasting Workshop on Diversity and Minorities in AI, 2022
As chair of a workshop in this year's national AI conference (AAAI/IAAI-22), I have been thinking... more As chair of a workshop in this year's national AI conference (AAAI/IAAI-22), I have been thinking about why its so important to draw attention to the ideas and innovations of a diverse community with under represented minorities. It has to do with the same importance as Multi-Disciplinary Research. Multi disciplinary research can lead to large strategic pivots in the way we currently do things because information is combined in new ways yielding new perspectives and breakthrough results. However most academic research is created by careers built from incremental progress and peer recognition within a specific area of expertise in their “field”. Federal governments support research directions suggested to them by “leaders of the field”. Like multi-disciplinary research, being an under represented minority or "outsider" in a field also often means it can feel like pushing boulders uphill to get your unusual way of seeing things heard or accepted. To move into the future, we need to see new perspectives. Many solutions are likely to come by lifting our heads from a singular outlook and building bridges across diverse concepts and ideas. These may need to come from people who think, act and look differently from ourselves. Can you handle it? If you have you done multi-disciplinary research, what was your experience? Was it difficult to get funded, accepted by your peers, published, etc. If you are an underrepresented researcher with different ideas, has it been challenging to get funding, communicate with peers, get papers accepted, etc.? All comments and insight welcome.
AAAI Workshop on Meta Cognition at 23rd AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2008
Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require com... more Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require compassionate intelligence to guide interaction and build applications of the future. The cognition of such an agent includes Metacognition: thinking about thinking, thinking about feeling, and thinking about others’ thoughts and feelings. We summarize the core meta-architectures and meta-processes of EM-2, a meta-cognitive agent that uses affective inference and an irrational TMS, the I-TMS, to resolve the turf war between thoughts and feelings based on agent personality rather than logic. The work is inspired by a human mind training process from India called Vipassana and 17 th century commonsense philosopher David Hume. Although separated by more than 2000 years they both present a philosophy of mind where emotion is the antecedent to logical thought.
Breakthroughs in brain science indicate compassion is good for our biology. As we accelerate to... more Breakthroughs in brain science indicate compassion is good for our biology. As we accelerate towards a cyber-society with more robotic, it makes sense to construct our AI tools (robots, software, etc.) with compassion. Presented at Science and Compassion Conference in Telluride, Colorado.
The idea of a Turing-Heart Test helps distinguish humans from bots that have some form of emotion... more The idea of a Turing-Heart Test helps distinguish humans from bots that have some form of emotional intelligence. The rise of deep fakes and increasingly sophisticated computing methods in AI mean such a test is possibly but one of many that we will need in order to tell bot from human on the internet. The limit of our ability to tell a bot from a human depends on a gap between what is testable and possible for a human and for a bot. While the emotional intelligence of bots is growing, the realm of the human heart and emotion remains vast and most would call it difficult to put into words, or indescribable. A computer scientist would cite the Church-Turing thesis to explain why this indescribability is exactly why something like a Turing-Heart Test will work.
Informally stated, the Church-Turing Thesis says that any procedure that can be described can be computed by machine. This indescribability, according to the Church-Turing thesis, creates a gap between the rich world of human heart/emotion and what can be computable.
The same indescribability drives groups of psychologists to different camps - some say there are 5 emotions, others 8, some 30. Some have tried to measure and collect data with hardware. I found myself drawn to medical systems from cultures that include emotions/mental state as part of diagnosis and healing. As an AI researcher, I did find this approach more satisfying then psychological theory because science seems to have tools to measure and see biological changes in us relating to these medical systems. But as a human being, I still find describing my feelings to be difficult, as do a number of friends, family and colleagues. It drives us to therapists, self help books and long conversations with others - to try and access our feelings. It is this distinctive quality about being human that can help spot bot from human. At least for now.
(DRAFT FOR COMMENTS)
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded... more (DRAFT FOR COMMENTS)
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. This paradigm shift in AI follows from two recent developments in science and technology. First, Increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like psychocardiology, neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology show our health depends on compassion. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. Although we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is "plastic". The brain and many other body processes change in response to our experiences. It is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. Our long held assumptions about emotion currently reflected in user interfaces and human machine interaction are unsuitable for humanity. The second development is 'machine rub off'. This is a type of plasticity I call "device plasticity." We are in symbiotic relation with our devices today and we are plastic. We are changed by our interactions. The trouble is many people have computer rage. They have pain, chronic illnesses, and bad days. We need Artificial Compassion to replace computer indifference to us with a positive plasticity, that is, a plasticity that will create a positive impact on our health.
Une courte vidéo éducative pour aider à arrêter de s'inquiéter rapidement en utilisant une méthod... more Une courte vidéo éducative pour aider à arrêter de s'inquiéter rapidement en utilisant une méthode de psychophysiophilosophie. Originaire du Japon, ce petit exercice provient d'un grand nombre d'arts de guérison maintenant étudiés et utilisés dans le monde entier. Les expériences avec ces méthodes à l'hôpital de Stanford et dans la communauté ont montré qu'elles sont utiles, nous vous encourageons à l'essayer par vous-même. Le film est bien adapté aux enfants mais est utile pour tous les groupes d'âge, y compris les adultes.
A short education video to help stop worry fast using a method from psychophysiophilosophy. Originating in Japan, this small exercise is from a large body of healing arts now studied and used all over the world. Experiences with these methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful, we encourage you to try it for yourself. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
Teaching material. A short education video to help stop worry fast using a simple easy method f... more Teaching material. A short education video to help stop worry fast using a simple easy method from psychophysiophilosophy. Patient experiences with these kinds of methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful and convent. It is also a type of sustainable healthcare. We encourage you to try it for yourself Psychophysiophiosophy is ancient, originating in Japan, but it is now studied and used all over the world. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
Educational film shows latest research linking our biological functions to compassion. The eff... more Educational film shows latest research linking our biological functions to compassion. The effects happen when receiving, giving or witnessing compassion.
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea o... more This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. The creation of Artificial Compassion is the result of two coinciding historical developments. The first is the increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. For example, we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is “plastic”. It changes constantly throughout our lives in response to our experiences. Remarkably, we also now know it is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. So, too, are the immune, endocrine, genetic, cardio and neural systems influenced and changed by our emotional experiences. This new perspective on emotions and plasticity validates much of ancient wisdom in medical systems outside th...
This brief article summarizes the novel thinking and rapid digital innovation in healthcare and h... more This brief article summarizes the novel thinking and rapid digital innovation in healthcare and healthcare education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in a special issue on Education and Learning for Digital Health, created by editors Morrow, Ross and Mason. It bring insights from the works of 17 world-leading clinicians, researchers and educators from Australia, Canada, the United States and Northern Ireland on topics on e-learning, blended learning, immersive virtual reality, artificial compassion, digital simulations and virtual patients, addressing how and why health professionals learn to use emerging technologies. For example, the first article
explains how the use of virtual care, such as virtual examinations, clinical assessments, and remote patient monitoring, expanded during COVID-19 to enable continued access to
healthcare.
New developments in AI mean the world is suddenly and rapidly changing. As human interaction wit... more New developments in AI mean the world is suddenly and rapidly changing. As human interaction with humanoid robots, softbots, and digital humans become widespread, Thomas Telving, author of Killing Sophia, believes there are some serious issues we must face together. We must consider how the way we respect these artifacts may spill over into the way we treat one another. As a philosopher from Denmark, Mr. Telving has been focused on human-robot interaction, especially those robots that look like us. He opens up about how he felt interacting with a humanoid robot in Japan that was very similar to the Saudi citizen robot, Sophia. While each culture may have a unique approach to robots (and virtual bots) now that both humanoids robots and humanlike technology in general are improved by conversational software like ChatGPT, we need to face these issues or be ready for a robot bill of rights. Thomas describes such a bill of rights.
Health education innovations made during the COVID-19 pandemic represent a special contribution t... more Health education innovations made during the COVID-19 pandemic represent a special contribution to the welfare of health professionals . The editorial introduces a special issue on digital health education, with all contributions occurring during the pandemic. This time impelled further innovation in health professionals’ online learning as education providers worked tirelessly to avoid disruption to learning. The special issue advances the scientific paradigm of the discipline in four specific areas:
• Health professionals learning to adapt and use virtual care (VC)
• Digital professionalism in the use of smartphone technologies
• Preparing medical students to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
• Safe use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in professional education
Stanford Spring Symposium on Ethics in Non-Human Agents, 2016
Ethics in Non-Human Agents
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing huma... more Ethics in Non-Human Agents
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing human robot interaction, the importance of trust has been largely ignored by the AI community because the AI problems we face are indeed complicated. Advancements in brain sciences show its biochemical importance not only to our ability to succeed in Iife but also to our health. To explore this issue the talk covers some of the neuroscience discoveries and introduces a robot priest, the same one used in the robot fashion show in 2015 at the Stanford Shopping Mall. The significance of the consequences of a breakdown in trust are exemplified by the brain sciences but also socially we can see what happened with the breakdown of trust in the Catholic Church. The robot priest is on display and the architecture can be seen by looking under the robot clothing. The robot priest is designed with a raspberry pi that is not connected to the internet. Still, should we trust it? What design considerations do we need to make at the beginning of a project to maximize our trust in a system? What kinds of AI are most suitable? Keep in mind, government regulations (in the US) are often 10 years behind technology development (ref Larry Lessig).
frontiers in psychology, section on human-media interaction, 2023
This article uses a systematic scoping review of the literature to explore the possible associati... more This article uses a systematic scoping review of the literature to explore the possible association between AI technologies and compassion in healthcare. The implications of this review include: 1) In a complex adaptive system such as healthcare, human-AI intelligent caring will need to be implemented, not as an ideology, but through strategic choices, incentives, regulation, professional education, and training, as well as through joined up thinking about human-AI intelligent caring. 2) Research funders can encourage research and development into the topic of AI technologies and compassion as a system of human-AI intelligent caring. 3) Educators, technologists, and health professionals can inform themselves about the system of human-AI intelligent caring.
Exploring the possible association between AI and compassion is important because AI mediates every area of healthcare systems (e.g., complex systems involving purchasers, providers, payers, patients, and so on) by powering search engines, analysing data and making recommendations (Bajwa et al., 2021), as well as through clinical and health-related applications (Davenport and Kalakota, 2019).
The theme of Season 4 of RADIO AI is about the Great Digital Hustle and this episode is on Data C... more The theme of Season 4 of RADIO AI is about the Great Digital Hustle and this episode is on Data Collection. From your credit card history to your phone, AI’s involvement in your data and privacy is rising. Maintaining data privacy can feel like Mission Impossible. Have you ever wondered how your data is collected? A “free” user account is just one way your data is collected. In this 2-part RADIO AI podcast on AI and Data Collection we take on what can only be called The Digital Hustle by arming ourselves with knowledge on data collection. In Part 1 we learn 10 ways our data is collected and used from every day life.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 2022
Contribute to APA's Response to Federal Agency Request for Information
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE... more Contribute to APA's Response to Federal Agency Request for Information
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Deadline to submit comments to APA: March 4, 2022. Access APA Services' comment form here.
Topics solicited: The Administration is seeking to update the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, including but not limited to:
· How AI R&D can help address harms due to disparate treatment of different demographic groups;
· Research that informs the intersection of AI R&D and application with privacy and civil liberties;
· AI R&D to help address the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in the AI workforce; and
· AI R&D to evaluate and address bias, equity, or other concerns related to the development, use, and impact of AI.
National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Plan , 2019
A Report by the SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE of the
NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ... more A Report by the SELECT COMMITTEE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE of the NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL. Original document is from 2016. This is an updated version of that 2016 document and is released in 2019. Work under the Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Applied Artificial Intelligence:An International Journal; Special Issue on Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 1995
This paper describes the cooperative interpretation of data from a global network of seismic stat... more This paper describes the cooperative interpretation of data from a global network of seismic stations in the context of nuclear test ban treaty verification. The problem, as solved by humans, involves the cooperation of a community of seismologists and the intellectual mechanism of assumption-based reasoning. Our computational agents cooperate by exchanging partial results that act as clues or heuristics about what assumptions to make and where to apply computationally expensive signal-processing algorithms, thus improving the quality of the global solution.
IAAI/AAAI-22 Opening Remarks for PodCasting Workshop on Diversity and Minorities in AI, 2022
As chair of a workshop in this year's national AI conference (AAAI/IAAI-22), I have been thinking... more As chair of a workshop in this year's national AI conference (AAAI/IAAI-22), I have been thinking about why its so important to draw attention to the ideas and innovations of a diverse community with under represented minorities. It has to do with the same importance as Multi-Disciplinary Research. Multi disciplinary research can lead to large strategic pivots in the way we currently do things because information is combined in new ways yielding new perspectives and breakthrough results. However most academic research is created by careers built from incremental progress and peer recognition within a specific area of expertise in their “field”. Federal governments support research directions suggested to them by “leaders of the field”. Like multi-disciplinary research, being an under represented minority or "outsider" in a field also often means it can feel like pushing boulders uphill to get your unusual way of seeing things heard or accepted. To move into the future, we need to see new perspectives. Many solutions are likely to come by lifting our heads from a singular outlook and building bridges across diverse concepts and ideas. These may need to come from people who think, act and look differently from ourselves. Can you handle it? If you have you done multi-disciplinary research, what was your experience? Was it difficult to get funded, accepted by your peers, published, etc. If you are an underrepresented researcher with different ideas, has it been challenging to get funding, communicate with peers, get papers accepted, etc.? All comments and insight welcome.
AAAI Workshop on Meta Cognition at 23rd AAAI Artificial Intelligence Conference, 2008
Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require com... more Human-level AI will require much more than just common sense about the world. It will require compassionate intelligence to guide interaction and build applications of the future. The cognition of such an agent includes Metacognition: thinking about thinking, thinking about feeling, and thinking about others’ thoughts and feelings. We summarize the core meta-architectures and meta-processes of EM-2, a meta-cognitive agent that uses affective inference and an irrational TMS, the I-TMS, to resolve the turf war between thoughts and feelings based on agent personality rather than logic. The work is inspired by a human mind training process from India called Vipassana and 17 th century commonsense philosopher David Hume. Although separated by more than 2000 years they both present a philosophy of mind where emotion is the antecedent to logical thought.
Breakthroughs in brain science indicate compassion is good for our biology. As we accelerate to... more Breakthroughs in brain science indicate compassion is good for our biology. As we accelerate towards a cyber-society with more robotic, it makes sense to construct our AI tools (robots, software, etc.) with compassion. Presented at Science and Compassion Conference in Telluride, Colorado.
The idea of a Turing-Heart Test helps distinguish humans from bots that have some form of emotion... more The idea of a Turing-Heart Test helps distinguish humans from bots that have some form of emotional intelligence. The rise of deep fakes and increasingly sophisticated computing methods in AI mean such a test is possibly but one of many that we will need in order to tell bot from human on the internet. The limit of our ability to tell a bot from a human depends on a gap between what is testable and possible for a human and for a bot. While the emotional intelligence of bots is growing, the realm of the human heart and emotion remains vast and most would call it difficult to put into words, or indescribable. A computer scientist would cite the Church-Turing thesis to explain why this indescribability is exactly why something like a Turing-Heart Test will work.
Informally stated, the Church-Turing Thesis says that any procedure that can be described can be computed by machine. This indescribability, according to the Church-Turing thesis, creates a gap between the rich world of human heart/emotion and what can be computable.
The same indescribability drives groups of psychologists to different camps - some say there are 5 emotions, others 8, some 30. Some have tried to measure and collect data with hardware. I found myself drawn to medical systems from cultures that include emotions/mental state as part of diagnosis and healing. As an AI researcher, I did find this approach more satisfying then psychological theory because science seems to have tools to measure and see biological changes in us relating to these medical systems. But as a human being, I still find describing my feelings to be difficult, as do a number of friends, family and colleagues. It drives us to therapists, self help books and long conversations with others - to try and access our feelings. It is this distinctive quality about being human that can help spot bot from human. At least for now.
(DRAFT FOR COMMENTS)
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded... more (DRAFT FOR COMMENTS)
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. This paradigm shift in AI follows from two recent developments in science and technology. First, Increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like psychocardiology, neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology show our health depends on compassion. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. Although we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is "plastic". The brain and many other body processes change in response to our experiences. It is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. Our long held assumptions about emotion currently reflected in user interfaces and human machine interaction are unsuitable for humanity. The second development is 'machine rub off'. This is a type of plasticity I call "device plasticity." We are in symbiotic relation with our devices today and we are plastic. We are changed by our interactions. The trouble is many people have computer rage. They have pain, chronic illnesses, and bad days. We need Artificial Compassion to replace computer indifference to us with a positive plasticity, that is, a plasticity that will create a positive impact on our health.
In Radio AI Episode 3.5, Dr. Cindy Mason shares why AI is a SUPER TOOL for working on the environ... more In Radio AI Episode 3.5, Dr. Cindy Mason shares why AI is a SUPER TOOL for working on the environment. Dr. Mason proposed the first U.S. and first international AI gathering of AI and Environmental scientists while working at NASA Ames and she has just completed a book, "Artificial Intelligence and The Environment," on Amazon. While working on the book she discovered that although there are many different kinds of environmental projects and many different kinds of AI used in these projects, across all these projects, something is striking. AI is a SUPER TOOL. The things that make environmental projects hard are exactly the things that AI was cut out for. Find out more in this episode with Radio AI director, AI researcher and author, Dr. Cindy Mason.
RADIO AI Episode 3.4 features ecologist Dr. Emily Ury, a new graduate of the Ecology Program at D... more RADIO AI Episode 3.4 features ecologist Dr. Emily Ury, a new graduate of the Ecology Program at Duke University who uses AI to understand a rapid die off of coast forestry, ghost forests, In North Carolina's Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. Dr. Ury studies wetland's response to sea level rise. She wanted to answer the question what's causing this sudden widespread die off? Understanding the timing and distribution of the die off can help pinpoint an answer. There are decades of satellite images to sift through and find these patterns, so Ury and her colleagues are using AI.They pinpointed a sharp change in the rate of die off - it was after a long drought, a big fire and then big storm surges from Hurricane Irene - a triple whammy. They also discovered huge swaths of interconnected wetland forests are dying. According to their results, seawater is raising salt levels in coastal woodlands along the entire Atlantic Coastal Plain, from Maine to Florida. The concern is Wetland forests sequester and store large quantities of carbon, so forest die-offs also contribute to further climate change.
Face recognition algorithms and language modeling systems are based on giant piles of data that a... more Face recognition algorithms and language modeling systems are based on giant piles of data that are fed into machine learning systems. The algorithms appear in many many apps and have become institutionalized by their use in hiring, firing and even prison sentences. Oddly, there are high error rates in the U.S., mostly involving people outside the majority population. The Algorithmic Justice League was created by Joy Buolamwini at MIT to make this right and they've already helped cities repair or take down face recognition systems until the errors can be corrected. Algorithmic justice means that data used to train machine learning for predicting our words, recognizing our faces and voices, represents all of us. MIT Machine learning expert Henry Lieberman helps explain some of the challenges and proposed the idea that if corporations cooperated with people instead of exploiting them, it will work out better for all of us.
This is the text for California's attempt to prevent AI disasters and protect data. It is called ... more This is the text for California's attempt to prevent AI disasters and protect data. It is called the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, California State Bill 1047. I am posting this for those who are teaching or studying these issues and may not be aware of its existence. It was "enrolled" into the California legislation system Sept. 3, 2024. The thrust of the bill was initially to prevent problems with deep fakes and machine learning models. In the text, there is some boiler plate verbiage at the beginning, but gets down to business at "section 1".
AI is changing fast, and countries around the world are working to develop regulations on the eth... more AI is changing fast, and countries around the world are working to develop regulations on the ethics, use, marketing and monitoring of AI. As an AI researcher, I wanted to put a summary of these efforts together in one document. None of the efforts are as comprehensive as those of the EU. It is doubtful a global unified framework is practical, although the UN has a text endorsed by 120 countries, as of March, 2024. The date of this summary is August, 2024.
Risk Reduction and Mitigation for Human Health in Stressful Isolation Environments, 2024
. With Project Artemis comes the promise of rapid innovation, new industry and discovery. But it'... more . With Project Artemis comes the promise of rapid innovation, new industry and discovery. But it's also about people. The trip to Mars, if all goes well, is expected to take 21 months there and back. That's about how long I lived in the Australian Outback, one of the most isolated harsh environments on earth. Caring for the people who are traveling and habituating new terrains and environments, away from their usual sources of care and of emotional and mental health support, presents significant challenges. Astronauts not only have the usual possible ailments, but according to medical reports and astronaut journals, there are also ailments particular to being in space. In this talk I propose the ancient method of acupressure self help as a proven and ready means for providing mental, emotional and physical support while living and traveling for extended periods in stressful isolated environments.
Acupressure is perfect for space because there is no equipment involved, you need only your hands and the training of how to do it. It costs very little and can be done as often as you like in almost any situation. In the talk, I cover our experiences using acupressure at Stanford Hospital and other places and the remarkable new human science that gives biological evidence to the wisdom of this approach. “The majority of astronauts adapt well to life in orbit as is evidenced from journals, however, as missions become longer and leave earth’s orbit, they will no longer have the psychosocial support available on the ISS in earth orbit.”* *Evidential medical reports sourced from in-flight astronaut journals for shuttle and ISS.
Emotion Filter for The Web is a guest lecture given by C. Mason at MIT course on software agents ... more Emotion Filter for The Web is a guest lecture given by C. Mason at MIT course on software agents in 2013. She describes the novel idea proposed by R. Gil of applying emotional intelligence to web filtering and explores why the subjective (emotional and cultural) experience of web pages should matter to us. In fact, as the case of The Tartarian Lamb shows, misunderstandings of knowledge have a history of shutting down trade routes. Dr. Mason reviews sensor technology related to emotions as well as social and cultural knowledge relevant to emotion filtering of web pages. The idea of emotion filtering (especially for positive emotion) is supported by developments in compassion science and positive psychology. Work was in collaboration with R. Garcia and R. Gil at U. Lleida.
As COP28 propels humanity towards AI as a means of managing our planet’s health, I would like t... more As COP28 propels humanity towards AI as a means of managing our planet’s health, I would like to recognize the contributions of the early visionary scientists who began using AI on sustainability and environment management. Their contributions were presented at the first AAAI and IJCAI workshops on AI and Environment. Their names are in this document. Their work stands as a testament to the impact AI can have on caring for and healing the world around us. The collected work of these visionary thinkers appears in AI and Environment, ISBN 978-1-7335248-0-3.
So you've finally discovered AI is useful. It's high time, some might say. Environmental scientis... more So you've finally discovered AI is useful. It's high time, some might say. Environmental scientists all over the world were using AI to solve problems 30 years ago. They still are. That fact is documented by this volume, AI and the Environment ISBN 978-1-7335248-0-3. I can speak to this because I am the person who proposed and partially funded the first AAAI and IJCAI gathering of AI and Environment folks. These environment experts are the people who latched onto AI long ago. AI was useful to us because from the moment we started monitoring the earth, we had to process and interpret vast amounts of uncertain, incomplete and sometimes missing data. This is exactly what AI is good at. I know this because in the Earth Science Dept. at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, I developed collaborative AI agents to automatically monitor a global sensor network for treaty compliance and nuclear testing. It was because of this work that I got to know other scientists' AI work around the world. If you want to see what AI can do/has ALREADY done, you must check out what these scientists did. Nobody cared about this topic when they were doing this work. There was little funding or resources, and an uphill battle. We were glad to find one another. They did the work because they saw a need for it, back then. And they CARED. They cared about the earth, and our children's futures. And they cared for each other. Each one of them deserves a medal in my opinion. These scientists were pioneering AI solutions to tough problems, and now they are useful to us TODAY. Their designs can give us shortcuts now to make systems of today. Many of these systems are still being used and have evolved. I urge you to study the documents of their systems that you will find in the book, which is the collection of their reports in an educational format. It can be used for instruction of administrators or those who are making budget decisions. It can also be helpful for quickly creating ground floor solutions. Here's how. If we want to move fast applying AI to climate/sustainability goals, we can repurpose or adapt some of the pioneering system architectures these scientists created. They architected and designed some really hairy environmental applications, and there are 16 different problems and their AI solutions described in this book. They include how to manage a sewage treatment plant in flood/storms, fire fighting resource management and decision making, automatic weather alerts (thank you New Zealand's Erik Jones and Aaron Roydhouse) and forest ecosystem management (thank you Stan Matwin from Canada). It also has systems that managed and integrated large amounts of satellite data from different systems (Amy Lanky and team). Just to name a few. The volume represents the work of over 50 scientists, from all over the world. This is typical of environmental systems, which are large, exist over decades and often require global cooperation.
How does AI process your data? Find out in this episode! Episode 4.7 picks up where we left off i... more How does AI process your data? Find out in this episode! Episode 4.7 picks up where we left off in Part 1 of AI and Data Collection, Ep. 4.2, just before Chat GPT blasted into the universe! (Our last 4 episodes are on Chat/GPT). In this, our last episode of Season 4, we uncover the design of the AI systems that are processing our data (described in Ep. 4.2). This is the final episode of season 4 of RADIO AI. Season 4 has 4 podcasts on CHAT-GPT and Generative AI and 3 on data privacy, security and AI. For a review of Part 1 podcasts check out Episode 4.2.
INTERVIEW ING/VERSION2 WITH CINDY MASON AND THOMAS TELVING
The brain is plastic and reacts intens... more INTERVIEW ING/VERSION2 WITH CINDY MASON AND THOMAS TELVING The brain is plastic and reacts intensely to broken trust. This has led a former AI researcher from Stanford University to propose a "What You See Is What You Get" legislation, which aims to prevent us from being deceived in our interactions with both chatbots and physical robots.How does the use of artificial intelligence affect our brains? And can knowledge about this teach us how to design artificial intelligence for the greatest possible benefit to humans?
For anyone following what is happening in AI technology, this is the sixth edition of the AI Inde... more For anyone following what is happening in AI technology, this is the sixth edition of the AI Index Report. Please consider voicing your opinion about any of the contents here. This year, 2023, the report introduces more original data than any previous edition, including a new chapter on AI public opinion, a more thorough technical performance chapter, original analysis about large language and multimodal models, detailed trends in global AI legislation records, a study of the environmental impact of AI systems, and more. The AI Index Report tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data related to artificial intelligence. Our mission is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, broadly sourced data in order for policymakers, researchers, executives, journalists, and the general public to develop a more thorough and nuanced understanding of the complex field of AI. The report aims to be the world's most credible and authoritative source for data and insights about AI.
How can we facilitate communication in cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams? Having multip... more How can we facilitate communication in cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams? Having multiple perspectives can strengthen us, but there can be confusion and some times it leads to increased understanding while at other times, it leads to frustration and errors. What works, what has helped and what tools do you find helpful? At the moment, many people who do not work in AI or machine learning are making comments which are ill informed and only add to the misinformation out there. What to do?
This is the third in a series of RADIO AI podcasts on CHAT-GPT and Generative AI. RADIO AI is an... more This is the third in a series of RADIO AI podcasts on CHAT-GPT and Generative AI. RADIO AI is an education podcast series for public literacy in AI, Machine Learning and Robotics started by Cindy Mason in 2019. In this episode of Radio AI (4.5) you will find out how you can make an OpenAI account and learn about some of the things you can do with it. Special RADIO AI guest, Curt Hall, is an emerging technology analyst who writes for Cutter Consortium and is a member of A. D. Little's network consulting group. He has watched how businesses adopt and use advanced technologies, including AI, Robotics and Machine Learning, for over twenty years. In this episode you find out how CHAT-GPT and Generative AI tools such as DallE are being used by in fashion and automotive design. Learn what you can do today and what to watch out for.
For other podcasts on this topic check out Episodes 4.3 and 4.4.
CHAT-GPT is changing our world and you need to know more about it. Join us for another RADIO AI ... more CHAT-GPT is changing our world and you need to know more about it. Join us for another RADIO AI podcast (Episode 4, Season 4), when we find out more about GPT-CHAT with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Natural Language pioneer, Professor Katherine Elkins. Did you know in its first week, 5 million users signed up? Or that It has more users than any other app in the history of apps? Prof. Elkins says finding out more about GPT helps us be better at using it and in chiming in to help make it better. Dr. Elkins has worked on the LLMs (Large Language Models), the "brain" of GPT and lots of other similar systems besides GPT. Prof. Elkins talks with us about How was it built? How it "thinks"? and even, Does it understand the emotion of what it "reads"? Join Professor Elkins and expand your world knowledge of chat-gpt.
About Radio AI: A podcast series to bring AI literacy to the public. Suitable for all ages sharing key ideas in Robotics, AI and Machine Learning.
In Radio AI Podcast 4.3, we learn some of the CHAT-GPT essentials and find out about AI's wo... more In Radio AI Podcast 4.3, we learn some of the CHAT-GPT essentials and find out about AI's world-changing AI breakthroughs involving Generative AI. CHAT-GPT is taking the world by storm, with the most users signing up for any app ever: 1 million users in its first 5 days. Since its release, this AI app has created a business plan, generated an AI course curricula and even, generated code. You will learn what a language model is, what a GPU is, and how CHAT-GPT was created. You'll also hear from MIT AI language expert, Henry Lieberman, who fills us in on not just CHAT-GPT, but a variety of models. As he explains it, what AI really needs to do at this point, is "make more charming mistakes." And he is right!
RADIO AI is an education podcast series for AI literacy started in 2019. The topics range from the basics of machine learning and robotics to fundamental ideas of concepts and categories and debugging and are all provided by friendly AI experts, professors and researchers.
In this special Radio AI Episode 4.1 we talk with natural language and deep fake expert Prof. Cr... more In this special Radio AI Episode 4.1 we talk with natural language and deep fake expert Prof. Cristina Puente and explore the growing problem of Deep Fakes. AI Deep Fakes are like faking a Matisse painting. When the master of deception is so good its real to everybody. Its the great digital hustle and the FBI has listed deep fakes as the #1 threat in our future. Remember that scene in The Terminator when he listens to someone's voice once or twice and can then fake it over the phone? Luckily, AI is has not mastered faking other people's voices and images this easily, but someone has already used Deep Fake AI to rob a bank in Madrid. So its getting closer. Join us in this episode as we talk with deep fake and natural language expert Professor Cristina Puente who works with lawyers and media experts on detecting deep fakes. From films to political speeches AI technologies trained to look and sound like someone can threaten our sense of reality and be misused as a tool for manipulation. Forewarned is fore armed.
RADIO AI-Episode 4.1 Distribution Announce RADIO AI launches Episode 4.1 Mar. 17 , 2022 on BuzzSprout
Something big happened to AI in the US - and the world needs to know. Its the discovery of somet... more Something big happened to AI in the US - and the world needs to know. Its the discovery of something called “coded bias.” Before we build a lot more big AI systems its important to learn about coded bias and what can be done, especially when AI plays a role in sensitive applications. In this talk, I cover the basic issue of bias in AI and what we can do about it.
The Turing-Heart Test is designed to separate bots from humans through questions focused on human... more The Turing-Heart Test is designed to separate bots from humans through questions focused on human heart intelligence. Human heart intelligence is the final frontier for AI - its reaches are still being discovered by humans. Do you think we can use a Turing-Heart test to help spot deep fakes? How far can we articulate our heart knowledge - is there a limit? Similar to the Church-Turing thesis, only if we can articulate an effective description can we program heart intelligence. Or can we?
How is AI helping us build a sustainable future? Association for Advancement of Artificial Intell... more How is AI helping us build a sustainable future? Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence holds its next conference in Vancouver in February, 2022. This tutorial proposal covers the use of AI in rebuilding sustainable critical infrastructure. In this tutorial we cover 16 AI applications for solving environmental problems and zero in on fire fighting and sustainable forestry as well as give extensive coverage to hybrid AI systems. In each system we ask and answer 5 questions about the domain and why AI is especially helpful. The tutorial gives hope based on what AI is already doing but also knowledge and tools for our future.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence takes place once again in 2022. W... more The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence takes place once again in 2022. Will it have anything at all to say about using AI for our environmental future? I created the first AAAI and IJCAI workshops on this topic. But it was another 16 years before the next one was held. This is my proposal for a tutorial on the topic of Using AI SuperTools for Rebuilding Environmental Infrastructures. One aspect of sustainability is to create and re-engineer our infrastructure to withstand climate change. AI is a SUPER TOOL for this because its strengths are exactly what makes solving environmental problems hard.
EARTH DAY 2020 50TH ANNIVERSARY TWITTER EDUCATION EVENT SUMMARY, 2020
For the 50th anniversary of EarthDay, we held an official registered education event with a 3 day... more For the 50th anniversary of EarthDay, we held an official registered education event with a 3 day tweet-a-thon, sponsored by www.aiandenvironment.org and earthday.org. These are the collected tweets. Material is drawn from a presentation at the SRI International AI Center and from the book, "Artificial Intelligence and The Environment". Originally tweeted from the US with shadow tweets from Spain. During the event we were retweeted and picked up in India, Norway and Germany. The retweeting locations from those accounts are unknown.
The following images were taken during a simple robot fashion show to demonstrate the philosophic... more The following images were taken during a simple robot fashion show to demonstrate the philosophical problem of Appearance and Reality in AI/Robotics. The robot fashion show was at Nordstrom's in the Stanford Shopping Mall less than a mile from the SRI Robotics lab and the Stanford AI Lab. Although people reacted differently to each robot, it was in fact the same robot and same software. To further illustrate the problem of Appearance and Reality in AI, we attached a Raspberry Pi computer to the robot chasis under clothing. No one asked about the hardware or software, but they did relate to the outfit.
U.K. Prime Minister has called their Horizon IT software scandal the worst miscarriage of justice... more U.K. Prime Minister has called their Horizon IT software scandal the worst miscarriage of justice in the history of England. In this case, individual users (sub post masters) did try to use their help line to report errors with the software. Their voices went unheard. This led to widespread legal prosecution of the users, whose lives were destroyed as a result. I re-release this CALL OF THE WILD for a new way of evaluating our systems and interface experiences because of the HUGE gap between our lived experience of these devices and the evaluation process used by the designers prior to rolling them out on users. If there had been anyone listening to the users, this would not have happened. It is a tragedy.
CALL OF THE WILD FOR ALL USER INTERFACE and USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNERS
This is a call for a NEW way of evaluating user experience, user interaction or user interface designs. My colleagues in this field have explained that you do “user studies.” Our lived experiences of these interfaces tell us who use the systems in daily life, this evaluation approach is just not enough. You need to evaluate and get user feed back IN THE WILD. By “in the wild” what I mean is after you have completed your user studies, and we are LIVING WITH THESE SYSTEMS. This is a different kind of evaluation for user systems and interactions and involves getting feedback from people who are living with their systems. I’m talking about everyone from mothers to bank managers. We’ve all experienced it. But somehow all my colleagues who actually DO user interfaces or user experiences, seem to have a blind spot as to how terrifically frustrating, living with these systems actually is. And since interfaces are in so many different areas of our life, whether its a web page for paying a bill, a phone tree for banking or an app for healthcare, this issue of user frustration is becoming critical.
There's a lot of excitement around space exploration right now. With a crewed mission to Mars on ... more There's a lot of excitement around space exploration right now. With a crewed mission to Mars on the horizon (project Artemis), a new age of innovation is exploding. My colleagues are excited about a 3D printer that can make heart tissue in space. But my thoughts turn to the human element. In my research on human science I discovered there is a process for growing heart tissue here on earth with the chemistry we generate from the experience of love. And that love, kindness and compassion also support the functioning and healing of over 50% of our body systems (Mason 2023). To put this in perspective, imagine if there was something the spaceship needed to keep over 50% of its systems functioning. This would be a top priority, there would be teams devoted to it and possibly entire departments and budgets. So while I agree the 3D printing of heart tissue is amazing, we're going to need more than 3D printing to keep our selves in good shape in space. The crewed journey to Mars and back is expected to take about 21 months. Love is not something one can 3D print. How do we survive in space without a steady supply of love, kindness and compassion from the usual places? There's no coffee shop, no church or temple, none of our kids, spouses, cousins or aunts and uncles or neighbors or friends. Certainly God can be found in space. But we are social creatures. New multidisciplinary research across almost all areas of medical science show that positive social and emotional experiences support our organs and cellular health-from wound healing to digestion and even bone health. In a culture that rewards productivity and accomplishment, it seems to me we might need some education and perhaps public discussion about this. Because the medical science that our need for love is biological. It is definitely not new to recognize people need love, and that we suffer greatly without it. What is new however is that now we have the science that links this need to our biology. And it matters much more than we could have ever imagined.
AI ACT - Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council, 2021
This the final document created by the European Commission on AI risk/regulation. It is the firs... more This the final document created by the European Commission on AI risk/regulation. It is the first of its kind, so naturally everyone is looking at this and analyzing it. If you want to get past the summaries and opinions about it, here is the original document (final version). Its an important document because it is setting the stage for regulation around AI risk in terms of how it can affect the public. This is Regulation ai 875509BF C386 0D30 2CB7E56A798BA4EA
CHAT-GPT is taking the world by storm, with the most users signing up for any app ever: 1 million... more CHAT-GPT is taking the world by storm, with the most users signing up for any app ever: 1 million users in its first 5 days. Since its release, this AI app has created a business plan, generated an AI course curricula and even, generated code. In this Radio AI Podcast 4.3, you will find out some of the essentials to keep up with the world-changing AI breakthrough involving OPEN AI's CHAT-GPT. You will learn what a language model is, what a GPU is, and how CHAT-GPT was created. You'll also hear from MIT AI language expert, Henry Lieberman, who fills us in on not just CHAT-GPT, but a variety of models. As he explains it, what AI really needs to do at this point, is "make more charming mistakes." And he is right! Join us for this fascinating and essential podcast on an amazing AI turn of events. About Radio AI: Accessible public podcasts on AI topics for all ages. Radio AI is a collection of friendly AI professionals sharing in an easy to understand approach to AI subjects. Radio AI Director and AI research scientist, Cindy Mason, said she started thinking about RADIO AI in 2019. "I began to see AI in more parts of our lives and I would hear the words 'AI', 'Machine Learning' and 'Robots' used in public and on the news more and more. As an AI researcher I was concerned there was little about AI that was accessible to the public. I decided to find AI Researchers who were the nicest and easiest to talk with who might help explain AI to the public." The result of her work was the RADIO AI podcast series. I hope you enjoy them.
Dear Alan Turing, What do you think of GPT Chat?, 2022
I wondered what you thought about what's been happening recently with AI/ML? It used to be that w... more I wondered what you thought about what's been happening recently with AI/ML? It used to be that with respect to natural language, AI was a bit like feeding Shakespeare to an abacus… but no longer. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/04/ai-bot-chatgpt-stunsacademics-with-essay-writing-skills-and-usability GPT Chat has generated business plans, a syllabus for an AI course, employment application letters…Most recently a school teacher wrote of her concern that students were using GPT Chat generated essays and cheating.
Inviting Comments on the idea of Digital Personhood.
Human dignity captures the notion that eve... more Inviting Comments on the idea of Digital Personhood. Human dignity captures the notion that every human being is uniquely valuable and therefore ought to be accorded the highest respect and care." Roberto Andorno [1] Asimov's First Law of Robotics, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." Isaac Asimov [2] has largely been ignored by the AI community. In the forthcoming book, Artificial Compassion, I introduce the concept of digital personhood as a way to bring the natural idea of personhood and human dignity to our algorithms and devices and to programmers and designers as well. The topic of digital personhood is also relevant to the recently released Bill of Rights in the US and the global version (still a work in progress)
A Turing-Heart Test distinguishes humans from emotionally intelligent bots. The Turing-Heart Te... more A Turing-Heart Test distinguishes humans from emotionally intelligent bots. The Turing-Heart Test is like the Turing test, except its for bots with emotional computing systems. The realm of the human heart and our emotions is vast. Even psychologists can't agree on how to name them or how many there are. It is exactly because of this indescribably nature that the Turing-Heart Test works. At least for now. Computer scientists would describe why this kind of test can help by citing something called the Church-Turing thesis. Informally stated, the Church-Turing Thesis says that any procedure that can be described can be computed by machine. It is precisely because there is a gap between the rich experience of the human heart/emotion and what is describable or, in this case, programmable, I believe this kind of test will be helpful. For now.
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea o... more This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. This paradigm shift in AI follows from two recent developments in science and technology. First, Increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like psychocardiology, neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology show our health depends on compassion. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. Although we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is "plastic". The brain and many other body processes change in response to our experiences. It is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. Our long held assumptions about emotion currently reflected in user interfaces and human machine interaction are unsuitable for humanity. The second development is 'machine rub off'. This is a type of plasticity I call "device plasticity." We are in symbiotic relation with our devices today and we are plastic. We are changed by our interactions. The trouble is many people have computer rage. They have pain, chronic illnesses, and bad days. We need Artificial Compassion to replace computer indifference to us with a positive plasticity, that is, a plasticity that will create a positive impact on our health.
There is evil on the internet. From stealing of money, child porn, hate speech, human trafficking... more There is evil on the internet. From stealing of money, child porn, hate speech, human trafficking, violence and stalking, etc. Is it possible a Programmer’s Creed could make a difference?
Inspired by recent events in the world. Inviting comment/revise/add!
There is evil on the internet. From stealing of money, child porn, hate speech, human traffickin... more There is evil on the internet. From stealing of money, child porn, hate speech, human trafficking, domestic violence stalking, etc. Where does it come from? Is it possible a Programmer’s Creed could make a difference? Programmer's Creed is intended to help computational environments shift towards a more positive place. It is for anyone who programs or works in a computer oriented profession, including administrators.
During the 3rd week of March, 2015, we staged a robot fashion show at Nordstrom’s Stanford Shoppi... more During the 3rd week of March, 2015, we staged a robot fashion show at Nordstrom’s Stanford Shopping Mall less than a mile from the SRI Robotics lab and the Stanford AI Lab. The theme of the show was The 4th Law of Robotics: WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get: A Robots External appearance should be consistent with its programming and therefore its decisions and actions.
Software is what determines how a robot will behave. But we humans create expectations on how someone will behave based on what they look like and what they wear. Like the human mind, software is invisible.
RADIO AI - Announces Season TWO
We are pleased to announce we are continuing RADIO AI podcast ser... more RADIO AI - Announces Season TWO We are pleased to announce we are continuing RADIO AI podcast series as Season Two with seven more episodes. There were between 80-100 new visitors to this site per day during Season One, with more than 14 countries listening in. I hope that means this kind of content is useful and understandable across many ages and backgrounds. Please enjoy the continuing series in Season Two. Thank you everyone for helping make this a success, especially during such weird times as the Pandemic (and fires here in California). Our apologies for the interruption.
Chapter proposal for Handbook of Pharmaceuticals Section IV Future Directions
The proposed chapte... more Chapter proposal for Handbook of Pharmaceuticals Section IV Future Directions The proposed chapter discusses one possible future for the pharmaceutical industry involving the development of an entirely new branch of healthcare suggested by Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School known as Self Help. We suggest the introduction of Self Help medicine at this particular juncture in time based on a number of factors including relevant work conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on water supplies around the world and the growing success of a web based health education project called Humans Without Borders based on Palo Alto community classes. Presently, healthcare in the United States is undergoing a great transformation for a number of reasons, including the growing cost of healthcare as well as an increasing size of our aging population. World wide, an increase in the human population is expected to continue at an exponential pace, pressing the current medical institutions, physicians and pharmaceutical delivery systems to their limits. In order to support these future scenarios, we were inspired by Harvard physician Herbert Benson, who suggests that at some point we must supplant our current systems with methods of self-help-"My hope is that some day self-help will stand equal to drugs, surgery and other therapies." We suggest that the pharmaceutical industry will play a particularly important role in the delivery of self help methods, regardless of the fact that many such self help methods are not pharmaceutical by nature. By this we mean that the pharmaceutical companies will play a large role in the re-education of pharmacy representatives and physicians with tools for teaching self help as well as the delivery of education materials that can be dispersed through pharmacies, special web sites and other sales channels. We base our views on experience working with one particular self help method known as psychophysiophilosophy – a touch based self help modality that can be readily delivered en masse across a wide number of cultures, without great expense. Because the tool is relatively cheap, this means there is a potential for a large profit. This method is presently used around the world primarily by affluent patients with both health insurance and the ability to pay for private instruction at the rate of approximately 120/hour or more. We would argue that this method as self help is particularly well suited for adoption by the pharmaceutical industry because it fills a gap in current approaches to healing with medicine by providing a tool that soothes both the body and the mind and eases the side effects of many of the present prescriptions. We suggest that by developing the self help market, pharmaceutical giants are likely to not only pioneer a new branch of future medicine but will increase positive outcomes in clinical trials for new drugs and reduce law suits. Self Help as a new healthcare market is a gem in the rough that can transform our current approach to human and animal healthcare and
We are designing Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Algorithms (machine learning) to process a... more We are designing Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Algorithms (machine learning) to process aspects of data about ourselves that most of us are not even aware are being collected. The design aspects of these systems concerns 10 areas that will likely affect our world and our society for generations to come. To help consider the 10 design areas, we suggest applying Prof. Daniel Solove's taxonomy on privacy to the design of AI and Big Data : process, data collection and data distribution.
Is it a good idea to collect data sets on our school children? What should the policies be? P... more Is it a good idea to collect data sets on our school children? What should the policies be? Pros, Cons, Issues? The EU's GDPR is inspiring many countries to create policies, if not adopt the GDPR in entirity. The questionaire is designed to provide input to the committees in the us/uk/un and elsewhere on aspects of privacy, safety regulations, policy, etc. regarding children (age 0-16) that relate to the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC) and data protection. I invite my learned and caring colleagues to chip in to the conversation by scanning the questionaire, answer if you any questions you can or comment, or if something is glaringly missing that is also important to hear about. Take heart, it can seem complicated, even overwhelmingly so, especially if its not your focus/field. But if you are a parent, an aunt, an uncle or just feel strongly please by all means give it a go. Because even answering or discussing just one section or one question might be helpful. We don't know where the brilliant insight will come from. Many thanks
We discuss the practical role that appearance and reality play in AI environments. When appearanc... more We discuss the practical role that appearance and reality play in AI environments. When appearance and reality do not line up, trust is broken. As the pedophilia problems of the priests in the Catholic Church demonstrate, broken trust also breaks the institutions and the lives that depend on that trust. To demonstrate that the clothing of an agent, like the clothing of a clergy, creates an expectation of what may occur in reality based only on appearances we invite the reader to consider building a Robot Priest and to explore public reaction to a Robot Fashion Show. The expectations can be held both by people and other bots. Some of the biological consequences of trust or lack of trust discovered by multiple disciplines in the human sciences are described. These have significant implications for the healthy and ethical design of non-human agents and mixed-realities. We conclude coherence between appearance and reality is essential, proposing a WYSIWYG or coherence law.
Is Science Broken? Have we lost our humanity in the pursuit of research? Is there a systemic fl... more Is Science Broken? Have we lost our humanity in the pursuit of research? Is there a systemic flaw in our system? Debate has broken out across many fields. Is it politics? Conflict of interest? Pressure of funding? Ethics? In this session I hope to discuss some of our own experiences or concerns regarding our sense of what goes on around us, and maybe what to do.
How wide spread is unethical behavior in academics? Unethical behavior can be anything from lyin... more How wide spread is unethical behavior in academics? Unethical behavior can be anything from lying, taking ideas or graduate students, to not referncing your work because of a personal vendentta or even ego. Recent US climate change sessions show how we treat one another, how we silence or support one another, can influence government policy. Has your work or your life been affected by unethical colleagues? What does good sportsmanship look like in academia and how can we work to reduce negative values? The session hopes to raise awareness of this important issue. We invite you to comment.
Recent clinical practice in Stanford hospitals as well as fMRI studies of mind-body phenomena at ... more Recent clinical practice in Stanford hospitals as well as fMRI studies of mind-body phenomena at Harvard provide physical evidence of profound aspects of human brain function and mental state not yet recognized or used by AI systems. Limiting our cognitive models to logical form simply does not permit the full realm of senses, consciousness or self that is truly part of our natural biological cognition and is evidenced by these studies. We propose a new foundation for AI that includes an agent's subjective experience of self and empirical aspects of cognition about objects. Rather than dispose of all we have built and learned from our past work in AI, we propose to build a bridge between new AI and old AI.
RADIO AI-Call for Participation This invitation is extended across all the subfields of AI. The p... more RADIO AI-Call for Participation This invitation is extended across all the subfields of AI. The purpose of the RADIO AI project is to help educate the public and other professions about AI, with a crowd sourced collective of podcasts by people who work on AI. Submit podcasts in .mp3 or .wav by email to [email protected] See http://www.radioai.net for examples. Some of the people talking the loudest about AI right now don't actually work on AI. We hope to hear from many individuals who wish to counter fear of AI by educating the public with lighthearted informative podcasts. People who are passionate about their work in AI tend to see the good it can do to help society, the environment, healthcare, and all aspects of life. We hope you will share this vision with others. Our goal is to bring together the collective vision through short podcasts and create easy to understand informative lectures by the people who work in AI-academia, business, finance, healthcare, inventors, and programmers. The lectures can be as short as 3 minutes or as long as 10. Some of you might wish to do a series of podcasts. Directions: Example podcasts are located on www.radioai.net All you need is some peace and quiet, a microphone and your inspired thinking.
Proc. Stanford Spring Symposium 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2016
Ethics for Non-Human Agents
Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
The issue of trust In desi... more Ethics for Non-Human Agents Stanford Spring Symposium 2016 Slide Deck
The issue of trust In designing human robot interactions is the main focus of this presentation. Advancements in brain sciences have shown there is an important biochemistry related to trust (or the lack of it). However, trust is often overlooked at the design stage in AI, because the problems we need to solve are already complicated enough. I make the argument that we must bring it to the forefront of our design considerations. We look at some of the neuroscience, and recall the devastation of human lives when trust was broken in the Catholic Church. To make this issue real I present a robot priest that was part of an experiment in a robot fashion show staged last year at the Stanford Shopping Mall. I cover the basic architectural design of the priest (based on using Raspberry Pi technology) and ask, "Should we trust a robot priest?" Even if its not connected to the internet? How could it be designed to be trust worthy?
A robot "priest" was presented at the AAAI-16 Stanford Spring Symposium on Ethics in Non-Human Ag... more A robot "priest" was presented at the AAAI-16 Stanford Spring Symposium on Ethics in Non-Human Agents. The point of such a demonstration is to enlighten AI researchers about the biological and molecular discoveries of trust's impact on our human bodies and society and therefore to realize we must design for trust in a healthy cyber-human world. With deep fakes, deep voices, fake news and so on, it is proposed a 4th law of robotics: What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) for devices in our world because people DO have expectations of behavior based on what they see. Dancing robot dogs can immediately switch to being police dogs. One is fun and safe, the other could be dangerous. We demonstrated this aspect of people's expectations of robots' behavior based on appearance with a robot fashion show at the Stanford Shopping Mall.
AAAI-22/IAAI-22 Workshop on Podcasting appears in the Diversity and Inclusion Tract of IAAI. I... more AAAI-22/IAAI-22 Workshop on Podcasting appears in the Diversity and Inclusion Tract of IAAI. In this workshop we will make a group podcast and also work on our individual podcasts. The podcasts will be published together as an AAAI collection. If you can't attend the conference, you can also upload something for RadioAI dot Net www.radioai.net
For Earth Day's 50th anniversary and to share about the new text "Artificial Intelligence and the... more For Earth Day's 50th anniversary and to share about the new text "Artificial Intelligence and the Environment" we held an official registered Digital Earth Day online education event using Twitter, April 19-22, @ai_environment. The focus was "Sharing insights on using AI for Environmental Problems from 16 Projects." The document contains the entire tweet history with images. The event was shadow tweeted in Spain and followed by an invited data science education article in India's Data Science Pals. The material is sourced from a lecture presented at the AI Center, SRI International. 10.13140/RG.2.2.10842.16329
slidedeck from aaai 2016 spring symposium at stanford, ca
Well-Being Computing: AI Meets Health ... more slidedeck from aaai 2016 spring symposium at stanford, ca
Well-Being Computing: AI Meets Health and Happiness Science
New computing paradigms take advantage of science of happiness become the new paradigms for healing, wellness and prevention.... We are in a symbiotic relation with machines and there is a rub-off effect between human-machine and then human-human and human-machine. Angry indifferent unhappy people bring negative energy to whatever it is they do at work or at home. Creating machines that support us brings potential to transform the negative energy in us. We review latest science of happiness and human health - neuro, immune and gene plasticity, heart and metabolism. The talk explores computing projects and tools that relate to the ideas of emotion and positivity - hardware to capture human emotion, expressing and understanding emotion/culture of web pages, emotional common sense and artificial compassionate intelligence.
The more we learn about the true nature of mind/heart and brain, the more we begin to see a different kind of computing is possible and essential. So let us design technology that uses this new way of seeing into ourselves.
Recently science has proven much ancient wisdom is true when it comes to the common sense of bei... more Recently science has proven much ancient wisdom is true when it comes to the common sense of being human (human sciences). For example, positive health effects result from positive emotion and interactions. This has been shown true in studies including cardio, neuro, immune, genetics... Doh! Two big science ideas are important. First, biological plasticity - we are constantly changing in response to repeated exposure to surroundings, moods, objects, relationships. So positive surroundings, moods and relationships have a positive impact and vice versa. Second, technology rub off - user interaction studies show repeated interactions with our devices is changing us. Voila! Knowing this, we can design technology with positive human science to support our bio systems. This is important not just for us but for our children, and our children's children. For instance - using knowledge about positive colors, fonts, layout on web pages can support mood. A more sophisticated example is to give some devices compassionate intelligence. Technology is everywhere, so there is a great potential to uplift humanity by bringing human science common sense into technology design. We propose to inject human sciences into curricula for Technology Design, EE, CS, but also to bridge between technology and other fields. Human sciences should be integrated into tech education as fast as possible because it holds the key to future technology design. In the talk i reveal many new things about brain sciences and biological plasticity that show how helpful new paradigms for programming and designing technology can be for our future and generations to come. slide set from presentation of paper by same title, given aaai-14 symposia, washington dc, 2014 appears in AAAI TR-FS-07, page 18
Given the importance of both AI and the Environment to our world today, we thought it was helpful... more Given the importance of both AI and the Environment to our world today, we thought it was helpful to upload the materials from this historic workshop that brought together AI engineers and researchers with Environmental scientists together for the first time at IJCAI - The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, considered the premier International AI conference. IJCAI-95 Montreal, Canada hosted the worlds first international gathering of Artificial Intelligence and the Environment, bringing together weather specialists, NASA scientists, atmospheric, climate and ocean scientists, environmental engineers and disaster planning specialists with AI researchers and scientists.
Conf. on Science and Compassion, Poster Session
covers Transdisciplinary science from neuroimmuno... more Conf. on Science and Compassion, Poster Session covers Transdisciplinary science from neuroimmunology, neuropsychiatry, psychoimmunology. Results indicate our human biology benefits from compassionate behavior. Can re-designing our robots and gadgets help? Stanford User Studies Experiments show a rub-off effect between our devices and ourselves so why not start building compassionate intelligence into our devices?
AI symposium on 'Ethics and morality in non-human agents' presentation AAAI-16 Spring Symposium. ... more AI symposium on 'Ethics and morality in non-human agents' presentation AAAI-16 Spring Symposium. Slides as pdf. Robot Priest was demonstrated, chasis, costume, hybrid raspberry pi/sermonator. Details of present science around biology of human trust, our deteriorating public trust in various institutions including foundations of the catholic church priests, and the need to build 'trustworthy' AI.
What if the decision making, learning and evaluations of a robot or any AI system had a compassio... more What if the decision making, learning and evaluations of a robot or any AI system had a compassionate intelligence? Our project shows programming a computer to have compassionate intelligence is possible. The symbiotic and influential relations between human, machine and society is well documented primarily due to Nass and team. The way we interact with machines rubs off on us. So the more time we spend with our machines, the more we begin to treat one another in the same way we interact with our machines. But many people report they are so frustrated they have shouted at, thrown or hit their gadgets. That means there's a lot of frustrated people walking around. Yikes. What would happen if we designed our gadgets to support us, to give kindness and compassion when we needed it? If being less grumpy wasn't motivation enough, new discoveries in neuroscience, psychoimmunology, endocrinology and cardiology are linking positive emotion, kindness and compassion to health benefits. What we did is a first step. We invite programmers and designers, manager, funding agents to take this to the next level. Let’s get started.
Coloring is therapeutic some say. Neuroscientists tell us that by just witnessing compassion, we ... more Coloring is therapeutic some say. Neuroscientists tell us that by just witnessing compassion, we benefit biologically and socially. I made this coloring book to reach people who might need some comforting compassion in an easy way. The coloring book front and back are here with a few sample pages. Early feedback from some educators and therapists are saying they find it helpful because although coloring is.a quiet activity, the subject matter helps the kids communicate when things are not going so well, or after difficult feelings about school shootings, the world, and so on. Its on amazon now.. ISBN 979-8-9904750-0-7. Soon available on Ingram Spark/bookstores. Wishing you all more love and compassion in this world.
The Emotion Organon explores the new science of life's most significant experiences: happiness an... more The Emotion Organon explores the new science of life's most significant experiences: happiness and compassion, and shows why this new knowledge of emotion needs to be part of our tools, our lives and our world, including AI. Biologically, positive emotions are a secret super power that lies within each of us. They help wound healing, glucose metabolism, growth of heart tissue and more. The effects of positive emotion can be seen in our cells, organs and even under our skin. It is a new kind of knowledge that has tremendous implications for the way we design media, communication, immersive environments, AI, VR, gaming, cyber environments and in our own lives. Over the past three decades we have learned more about human science than in our entire history. The book gives concise details about these human science discoveries and shares how they are already being applied in the military, sports, healthcare, education, gaming, AI and more. The arrival of this new human science in our life time means that the way we design our tools, systems and institutions must not simply be oblivious to us, as automation and efficient processes, but to have built in protection for us. The human biological need for positivity means our systems need to have a conscience of care for us. Instead of reacting to the errors of RoboDebt, ImageNet, face recognition and so on, we can design our world to have a stake in us. This book shows how and why it needs to happen.
Now On Amazon Paperback: ISBN 979-8-851933400 Hardback: ISBN 979-8-850136192 Forthcoming: Designing Artificial Compassion Technology: Introducing Compassion Centered Design
We must design a new way of living… we need to design how we behave… the design of our time is the design of our life. Bruce Mau Multi-award winning Canadian designer
New book announce: AI and Environment is a collection of works from the first gathering of AI an... more New book announce: AI and Environment is a collection of works from the first gathering of AI and climate/environmental scientists in the AAAI and IJCAI communities, proposed and created by C. Mason with support from NASA and the Canadian Meterological Society..- E-Book on Amazon: E-ISBN 978-1-7335248-1-0 The book's presence represents a history on how long ago AI was being put to use by climate and many other sciences to solve hard problems. It also documents how little interest there was in this topic in the US. There was not another workshop like this for 17 years, in the AAAI/IJCAI community until Mary Lou Maher and Doug Fisher created one. They could not locate this work, but the moment of the first AAAI/IJCAI workshops on AI and Environment/Climate is important because looking back, it marks a time when we had a great deal of advanced solutions to problems, and that shows beyond a doubt that the issues of creating sustainability are not technical but economical and political. People are now making careers out of jumping on the bandwagon of climate to gather more data. We don't need more data to take action. Greta Thunberg is right. Blah blah blah. Blah blah blah. To get this work online, I tried to convince AAAI HQ, (by phone and email, which was never answered) to get our workshop put online, so people could find it, because using AI to solve climate/sustainaiblity was important. But there was a procedural snafu.and they could not. Hence, this book. Fortunately, a friend at MIT had saved away a copy of the original workshop proceedings, otherwise they would be lost. Thanks, H.
The collected works serves as a playbook for using AI to create environmental resilience. There are 16 Chapters, each chock full of details on AI systems (mostly hybrid AI systems) for problems like fire fighting, toxic algae bloom prediction, water pollution prediction, generating weather , bulletins, aggregating satellite data, etc. Hybrid AI uses any and all technologies to solve a problem, including machine learning, fuzzy methods, reasoning, databases, sensor networks, image processing, natural language, data management, user interfaces, etc. Book is structured as text with Q&A for each chapter targeting key ideas both on the environmental problem and the AI system that addresses it. Weekly excerpts on twitter, follow @ai_environment. For a nutshell, and a peek at the book being made by the book making robot at Harvard Bookstore, see www.aiandenvironment.org. Thank you to Cat Shaw. She and I worked tirelessly to put this book together. She is a miracle worker for creating books.
Book Review for The Emotion Organon by C. Mason, 2024
ISBN 979-8-8501361-9-2
The next generatio... more Book Review for The Emotion Organon by C. Mason, 2024 ISBN 979-8-8501361-9-2
The next generation needs to know they are not confined by the ways we have previously thought about technologies and the positivity they can bring to us. In The Emotion Organon, Dr. Cindy Mason artfully synthesise a new body of medical literature on emotion and the body to elucidate how this understanding of human biology, termed the 'emotion organon,' can be used to improve and enhance our current technologies.
Book Review Emotion Organon. ISBN 979-885-1933-400, 2024
'The Emotion Organon' (ISBN 979-885-1933-400) opens a window to the future exposing what should b... more 'The Emotion Organon' (ISBN 979-885-1933-400) opens a window to the future exposing what should be the design and development of this technology, always from an ethical point of view with the human being as the center, without affecting our rights and limitations, ensuring our privacy and free will. ... Dr. Mason talks about brain bioplasticity, and the impact that positive social and emotional emotions have on our brain. New technologies play an important role in helping us to bring out the best version of ourselves and not to rely on machines. The recent pandemic has shown, as Dr. Mason points out, that our emotions directly affect our immune system, as does our use of technology. It is up to us to create and design applications that strengthen us as people and make us more aware of the social problems of the world we live in...
This is a quick review of The Emotion Organon, a new book promoting the idea that human science b... more This is a quick review of The Emotion Organon, a new book promoting the idea that human science belongs in the future of knowledge for AI and other technologies. Written by Henry Lieberman, from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, Henry is not easy to impress. So it's fair to say the author was sweating bullets while waiting for the review.
Here's the upshot: Mason's "Emotion Organon" lights the way towards more compassionate design of technology and a better understanding of ourselves. I guarantee you'll feel better for having read it.
Book Review for new book, The Emotion Organon, by Dr. C. Mason.
Review by Curt Hall, Emerging Te... more Book Review for new book, The Emotion Organon, by Dr. C. Mason.
Review by Curt Hall, Emerging Technology Analyst for Arthur D. Little and Senior Analyst for Cutter Consortium
The Upshot: This book takes us “Beyond Generative AI”
Mason advocates for a crucial new kind of intelligence to be in our technology and AI systems: a special intelligence that comes from the strength and goodness of our humanity. It belongs in the founding knowledge that goes into our technology, especially those systems close to us.
The Emotion Organon is a gift to the world from the woman who invented Artificial Compassion. As the book opens, Dr. Cindy Mason (sometimes referred to as the mother of Artificial Compassion) asks us: Why aren’t we creating AI (or other technologies) that takes our basic human needs into account? According to what she says in her book, this trend is about to change.
The Emotion Organon is a well-researched and thought-provoking work that shows us how breakthroughs in medical science are compelling us to build a new generation of technology that actually care about us. The breakthroughs are centered on the new medical sciences of emotions and its implications for designing digital technology that is supportive of human biology. The book provides practical advice for anyone looking to design technology that is for us, rather than against us. In fact work in this area is already beginning in games and virtual reality. The bottom line: this book is a key reference for designing technology that sustains the best part of our humanity. It is chock-a-block full of human science knowledge that will be of interest to anyone, but for engineers, programmers and designers it will be a reference for years to come. To my knowledge it is the only book of its kind. It would also fit well in any discussion about ethics and the pervasive impact of technology in modern society and healthcare.
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A short education video to help stop worry fast using a method from psychophysiophilosophy. Originating in Japan, this small exercise is from a large body of healing arts now studied and used all over the world. Experiences with these methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful, we encourage you to try it for yourself. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
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explains how the use of virtual care, such as virtual examinations, clinical assessments, and remote patient monitoring, expanded during COVID-19 to enable continued access to
healthcare.
• Health professionals learning to adapt and use virtual care (VC)
• Digital professionalism in the use of smartphone technologies
• Preparing medical students to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
• Safe use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in professional education
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing human robot interaction, the importance of trust has been largely ignored by the AI community because the AI problems we face are indeed complicated. Advancements in brain sciences show its biochemical importance not only to our ability to succeed in Iife but also to our health. To explore this issue the talk covers some of the neuroscience discoveries and introduces a robot priest, the same one used in the robot fashion show in 2015 at the Stanford Shopping Mall. The significance of the consequences of a breakdown in trust are exemplified by the brain sciences but also socially we can see what happened with the breakdown of trust in the Catholic Church. The robot priest is on display and the architecture can be seen by looking under the robot clothing. The robot priest is designed with a raspberry pi that is not connected to the internet. Still, should we trust it? What design considerations do we need to make at the beginning of a project to maximize our trust in a system? What kinds of AI are most suitable? Keep in mind, government regulations (in the US) are often 10 years behind technology development (ref Larry Lessig).
Exploring the possible association between AI and compassion is important because AI mediates every area of healthcare systems (e.g., complex systems involving purchasers, providers, payers, patients, and so on) by powering search engines, analysing data and making recommendations (Bajwa et al., 2021), as well as through clinical and health-related applications (Davenport and Kalakota, 2019).
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Deadline to submit comments to APA: March 4, 2022. Access APA Services' comment form here.
Topics solicited: The Administration is seeking to update the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, including but not limited to:
· How AI R&D can help address harms due to disparate treatment of different demographic groups;
· Research that informs the intersection of AI R&D and application with privacy and civil liberties;
· AI R&D to help address the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in the AI workforce; and
· AI R&D to evaluate and address bias, equity, or other concerns related to the development, use, and impact of AI.
NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL. Original document is from 2016. This is an updated version of that 2016 document and is released in 2019. Work under the Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Was it difficult to get funded, accepted by your peers, published, etc. If you are an underrepresented researcher with different ideas, has it been challenging to get funding, communicate with peers, get papers accepted, etc.?
All comments and insight welcome.
Informally stated, the Church-Turing Thesis says that any procedure that can be described can be computed by machine. This indescribability, according to the Church-Turing thesis, creates a gap between the rich world of human heart/emotion and what can be computable.
The same indescribability drives groups of psychologists to different camps - some say there are 5 emotions, others 8, some 30. Some have tried to measure and collect data with hardware. I found myself drawn to medical systems from cultures that include emotions/mental state as part of diagnosis and healing. As an AI researcher, I did find this approach more satisfying then psychological theory because science seems to have tools to measure and see biological changes in us relating to these medical systems. But as a human being, I still find describing my feelings to be difficult, as do a number of friends, family and colleagues. It drives us to therapists, self help books and long conversations with others - to try and access our feelings. It is this distinctive quality about being human that can help spot bot from human. At least for now.
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. This paradigm shift in AI follows from two recent developments in science and technology. First, Increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like psychocardiology, neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology show our health depends on compassion. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. Although we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is "plastic". The brain and many other body processes change in response to our experiences. It is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. Our long held assumptions about emotion currently reflected in user interfaces and human machine interaction are unsuitable for humanity. The second development is 'machine rub off'. This is a type of plasticity I call "device plasticity." We are in symbiotic relation with our devices today and we are plastic. We are changed by our interactions. The trouble is many people have computer rage. They have pain, chronic illnesses, and bad days. We need Artificial Compassion to replace computer indifference to us with a positive plasticity, that is, a plasticity that will create a positive impact on our health.
A short education video to help stop worry fast using a method from psychophysiophilosophy. Originating in Japan, this small exercise is from a large body of healing arts now studied and used all over the world. Experiences with these methods at Stanford Hospital and community showed they are helpful, we encourage you to try it for yourself. The film is well suited for children but is useful for all age groups including adults.
explains how the use of virtual care, such as virtual examinations, clinical assessments, and remote patient monitoring, expanded during COVID-19 to enable continued access to
healthcare.
• Health professionals learning to adapt and use virtual care (VC)
• Digital professionalism in the use of smartphone technologies
• Preparing medical students to use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
• Safe use of virtual reality (VR) technologies in professional education
AAAI Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
Slide Deck
In designing human robot interaction, the importance of trust has been largely ignored by the AI community because the AI problems we face are indeed complicated. Advancements in brain sciences show its biochemical importance not only to our ability to succeed in Iife but also to our health. To explore this issue the talk covers some of the neuroscience discoveries and introduces a robot priest, the same one used in the robot fashion show in 2015 at the Stanford Shopping Mall. The significance of the consequences of a breakdown in trust are exemplified by the brain sciences but also socially we can see what happened with the breakdown of trust in the Catholic Church. The robot priest is on display and the architecture can be seen by looking under the robot clothing. The robot priest is designed with a raspberry pi that is not connected to the internet. Still, should we trust it? What design considerations do we need to make at the beginning of a project to maximize our trust in a system? What kinds of AI are most suitable? Keep in mind, government regulations (in the US) are often 10 years behind technology development (ref Larry Lessig).
Exploring the possible association between AI and compassion is important because AI mediates every area of healthcare systems (e.g., complex systems involving purchasers, providers, payers, patients, and so on) by powering search engines, analysing data and making recommendations (Bajwa et al., 2021), as well as through clinical and health-related applications (Davenport and Kalakota, 2019).
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Deadline to submit comments to APA: March 4, 2022. Access APA Services' comment form here.
Topics solicited: The Administration is seeking to update the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, including but not limited to:
· How AI R&D can help address harms due to disparate treatment of different demographic groups;
· Research that informs the intersection of AI R&D and application with privacy and civil liberties;
· AI R&D to help address the underrepresentation of certain demographic groups in the AI workforce; and
· AI R&D to evaluate and address bias, equity, or other concerns related to the development, use, and impact of AI.
NATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL. Original document is from 2016. This is an updated version of that 2016 document and is released in 2019. Work under the Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Was it difficult to get funded, accepted by your peers, published, etc. If you are an underrepresented researcher with different ideas, has it been challenging to get funding, communicate with peers, get papers accepted, etc.?
All comments and insight welcome.
Informally stated, the Church-Turing Thesis says that any procedure that can be described can be computed by machine. This indescribability, according to the Church-Turing thesis, creates a gap between the rich world of human heart/emotion and what can be computable.
The same indescribability drives groups of psychologists to different camps - some say there are 5 emotions, others 8, some 30. Some have tried to measure and collect data with hardware. I found myself drawn to medical systems from cultures that include emotions/mental state as part of diagnosis and healing. As an AI researcher, I did find this approach more satisfying then psychological theory because science seems to have tools to measure and see biological changes in us relating to these medical systems. But as a human being, I still find describing my feelings to be difficult, as do a number of friends, family and colleagues. It drives us to therapists, self help books and long conversations with others - to try and access our feelings. It is this distinctive quality about being human that can help spot bot from human. At least for now.
This paper describes a new generation of computational intelligence founded on the ancient idea of compassion called Artificial Compassion. This paradigm shift in AI follows from two recent developments in science and technology. First, Increasing discoveries of human sciences in new fields like psychocardiology, neuroendocrinology and psychoneuroimmunology show our health depends on compassion. This provides the spark for Artificial Compassion. Although we once thought with certainty that our brain is fixed for life but neuropsychology and a device called the fMRI have shown it is "plastic". The brain and many other body processes change in response to our experiences. It is changed for the better through positive emotions like compassion, kindness and happiness. Our long held assumptions about emotion currently reflected in user interfaces and human machine interaction are unsuitable for humanity. The second development is 'machine rub off'. This is a type of plasticity I call "device plasticity." We are in symbiotic relation with our devices today and we are plastic. We are changed by our interactions. The trouble is many people have computer rage. They have pain, chronic illnesses, and bad days. We need Artificial Compassion to replace computer indifference to us with a positive plasticity, that is, a plasticity that will create a positive impact on our health.
Acupressure is perfect for space because there is no equipment involved, you need only your hands and the training of how to do it. It costs very little and can be done as often as you like in almost any situation. In the talk, I cover our experiences using acupressure at Stanford Hospital and other places and the remarkable new human science that gives biological evidence to the wisdom of this approach. “The majority of astronauts adapt well to life in orbit as is evidenced from journals, however, as missions become longer and leave earth’s orbit, they will no longer have the psychosocial support available on the ISS in earth orbit.”* *Evidential medical reports sourced from in-flight astronaut journals for shuttle and ISS.
The brain is plastic and reacts intensely to broken trust. This has led a former AI researcher from Stanford University to propose a "What You See Is What You Get" legislation, which aims to prevent us from being deceived in our interactions with both chatbots and physical robots.How does the use of artificial intelligence affect our brains? And can knowledge about this teach us how to design artificial intelligence for the greatest possible benefit to humans?
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CALL OF THE WILD FOR ALL USER INTERFACE and USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNERS
This is a call for a NEW way of evaluating user experience, user interaction or user interface designs. My colleagues in this field have explained that you do “user studies.” Our lived experiences of these interfaces tell us who use the systems in daily life, this evaluation approach is just not enough. You need to evaluate and get user feed back IN THE WILD. By “in the wild” what I mean is after you have completed your user studies, and we are LIVING WITH THESE SYSTEMS. This is a different kind of evaluation for user systems and interactions and involves getting feedback from people who are living with their systems. I’m talking about everyone from mothers to bank managers. We’ve all experienced it. But somehow all my colleagues who actually DO user interfaces or user experiences, seem to have a blind spot as to how terrifically frustrating, living with these systems actually is. And since interfaces are in so many different areas of our life, whether its a web page for paying a bill, a phone tree for banking or an app for healthcare, this issue of user frustration is becoming critical.
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Human dignity captures the notion that every human being is uniquely valuable and therefore ought to be accorded the highest respect and care." Roberto Andorno [1] Asimov's First Law of Robotics, "A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." Isaac Asimov [2] has largely been ignored by the AI community. In the forthcoming book, Artificial Compassion, I introduce the concept of digital personhood as a way to bring the natural idea of personhood and human dignity to our algorithms and devices and to programmers and designers as well. The topic of digital personhood is also relevant to the recently released Bill of Rights in the US and the global version (still a work in progress)
Is it possible a Programmer’s Creed could make a difference?
Inspired by recent events in the world. Inviting comment/revise/add!
Programmer's Creed is intended to help computational environments shift towards a more positive place. It is for anyone who programs or works in a computer oriented profession, including administrators.
Software is what determines how a robot will behave. But we humans create expectations on how someone will behave based on what they look like and what they wear. Like the human mind, software is invisible.
We are pleased to announce we are continuing RADIO AI podcast series as Season Two with seven more episodes. There were between 80-100 new visitors to this site per day during Season One, with more than 14 countries listening in. I hope that means this kind of content is useful and understandable across many ages and backgrounds. Please enjoy the continuing series in Season Two. Thank you everyone for helping make this a success, especially during such weird times as the Pandemic (and fires here in California). Our apologies for the interruption.
The proposed chapter discusses one possible future for the pharmaceutical industry involving the development of an entirely new branch of healthcare suggested by Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School known as Self Help. We suggest the introduction of Self Help medicine at this particular juncture in time based on a number of factors including relevant work conducted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) on water supplies around the world and the growing success of a web based health education project called Humans Without Borders based on Palo Alto community classes. Presently, healthcare in the United States is undergoing a great transformation for a number of reasons, including the growing cost of healthcare as well as an increasing size of our aging population. World wide, an increase in the human population is expected to continue at an exponential pace, pressing the current medical institutions, physicians and pharmaceutical delivery systems to their limits. In order to support these future scenarios, we were inspired by Harvard physician Herbert Benson, who suggests that at some point we must supplant our current systems with methods of self-help-"My hope is that some day self-help will stand equal to drugs, surgery and other therapies." We suggest that the pharmaceutical industry will play a particularly important role in the delivery of self help methods, regardless of the fact that many such self help methods are not pharmaceutical by nature. By this we mean that the pharmaceutical companies will play a large role in the re-education of pharmacy representatives and physicians with tools for teaching self help as well as the delivery of education materials that can be dispersed through pharmacies, special web sites and other sales channels. We base our views on experience working with one particular self help method known as psychophysiophilosophy – a touch based self help modality that can be readily delivered en masse across a wide number of cultures, without great expense. Because the tool is relatively cheap, this means there is a potential for a large profit. This method is presently used around the world primarily by affluent patients with both health insurance and the ability to pay for private instruction at the rate of approximately 120/hour or more. We would argue that this method as self help is particularly well suited for adoption by the pharmaceutical industry because it fills a gap in current approaches to healing with medicine by providing a tool that soothes both the body and the mind and eases the side effects of many of the present prescriptions. We suggest that by developing the self help market, pharmaceutical giants are likely to not only pioneer a new branch of future medicine but will increase positive outcomes in clinical trials for new drugs and reduce law suits. Self Help as a new healthcare market is a gem in the rough that can transform our current approach to human and animal healthcare and
Stanford Spring Symposium 2016
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The issue of trust In designing human robot interactions is the main focus of this presentation. Advancements in brain sciences have shown there is an important biochemistry related to trust (or the lack of it). However, trust is often overlooked at the design stage in AI, because the problems we need to solve are already complicated enough. I make the argument that we must bring it to the forefront of our design considerations. We look at some of the neuroscience, and recall the devastation of human lives when trust was broken in the Catholic Church. To make this issue real I present a robot priest that was part of an experiment in a robot fashion show staged last year at the Stanford Shopping Mall. I cover the basic architectural design of the priest (based on using Raspberry Pi technology) and ask, "Should we trust a robot priest?" Even if its not connected to the internet? How could it be designed to be trust worthy?
Well-Being Computing: AI Meets Health and Happiness Science
New computing paradigms take advantage of science of happiness become the new paradigms for healing, wellness and prevention.... We are in a symbiotic relation with machines and there is a rub-off effect between human-machine and then human-human and human-machine. Angry indifferent unhappy people bring negative energy to whatever it is they do at work or at home. Creating machines that support us brings potential to transform the negative energy in us. We review latest science of happiness and human health - neuro, immune and gene plasticity, heart and metabolism. The talk explores computing projects and tools that relate to the ideas of emotion and positivity - hardware to capture human emotion, expressing and understanding emotion/culture of web pages, emotional common sense and artificial compassionate intelligence.
The more we learn about the true nature of mind/heart and brain, the more we begin to see a different kind of computing is possible and essential. So let us design technology that uses this new way of seeing into ourselves.
slide set from presentation of paper by same title,
given aaai-14 symposia, washington dc, 2014 appears in AAAI TR-FS-07, page 18
covers Transdisciplinary science from neuroimmunology, neuropsychiatry, psychoimmunology. Results indicate our human biology benefits from compassionate behavior. Can re-designing our robots and gadgets help? Stanford User Studies Experiments show a rub-off effect between our devices and ourselves so why not start building compassionate intelligence into our devices?
Over the past three decades we have learned more about human science than in our entire history. The book gives concise details about these human science discoveries and shares how they are already being applied in the military, sports, healthcare, education, gaming, AI and more. The arrival of this new human science in our life time means that the way we design our tools, systems and institutions must not simply be oblivious to us, as automation and efficient processes, but to have built in protection for us. The human biological need for positivity means our systems need to have a conscience of care for us. Instead of reacting to the errors of RoboDebt, ImageNet, face recognition and so on, we can design our world to have a stake in us. This book shows how and why it needs to happen.
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Designing Artificial Compassion Technology: Introducing Compassion Centered Design
We must design a new way of living… we need to design how we behave… the design of our time is the design of our life.
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The collected works serves as a playbook for using AI to create environmental resilience. There are 16 Chapters, each chock full of details on AI systems (mostly hybrid AI systems) for problems like fire fighting, toxic algae bloom prediction, water pollution prediction, generating weather , bulletins, aggregating satellite data, etc. Hybrid AI uses any and all technologies to solve a problem, including machine learning, fuzzy methods, reasoning, databases, sensor networks, image processing, natural language, data management, user interfaces, etc. Book is structured as text with Q&A for each chapter targeting key ideas both on the environmental problem and the AI system that addresses it. Weekly excerpts on twitter, follow @ai_environment. For a nutshell, and a peek at the book being made by the book making robot at Harvard Bookstore, see www.aiandenvironment.org. Thank you to Cat Shaw. She and I worked tirelessly to put this book together. She is a miracle worker for creating books.
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The next generation needs to know they are not confined by the ways we have previously thought about technologies and the positivity they can bring to us. In The Emotion Organon, Dr. Cindy Mason artfully synthesise a new body of medical literature on emotion and the body to elucidate how this understanding of human biology, termed the 'emotion organon,' can be used to improve and enhance our current technologies.
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Here's the upshot: Mason's "Emotion Organon" lights the way towards more compassionate design of technology and a better understanding of ourselves. I guarantee you'll feel better for having read it.
Review by Curt Hall, Emerging Technology Analyst for Arthur D. Little and Senior Analyst for Cutter Consortium
The Upshot: This book takes us “Beyond Generative AI”
Mason advocates for a crucial new kind of intelligence to be in our technology and AI systems: a special intelligence that comes from the strength and goodness of our humanity. It belongs in the founding knowledge that goes into our technology, especially those systems close to us.
The Emotion Organon is a gift to the world from the woman who invented Artificial Compassion. As the book opens, Dr. Cindy Mason (sometimes referred to as the mother of Artificial Compassion) asks us: Why aren’t we creating AI (or other technologies) that takes our basic human needs into account? According to what she says in her book, this trend is about to change.
The Emotion Organon is a well-researched and thought-provoking work that shows us how breakthroughs in medical science are compelling us to build a new generation of technology that actually care about us. The breakthroughs are centered on the new medical sciences of emotions and its implications for designing digital technology that is supportive of human biology. The book provides practical advice for anyone looking to design technology that is for us, rather than against us. In fact work in this area is already beginning in games and virtual reality. The bottom line: this book is a key reference for designing technology that sustains the best part of our humanity. It is chock-a-block full of human science knowledge that will be of interest to anyone, but for engineers, programmers and designers it will be a reference for years to come. To my knowledge it is the only book of its kind. It would also fit well in any discussion about ethics and the pervasive impact of technology in modern society and healthcare.