AI & Robotics

In my opinion I believe that robots can do some, but not entirely all the stuff us humans can do. I mean it'll be amazing and kind of weird to me if robots were to do exactly every single little thing that humans do. It's like robots would take over humans and of course over the world because basically technology has taken over our lives since we tend to use it every single day, for example our phones. To the question of who is likely to make more errors, if humans or robots I think that both evenly would make errors. I read the article about "Should we put robots on trial". It states how there are many robot-like machines in present day that any serious problem can be traced to human and it can be either because the machine was used incorrect or it was used to do harm intentionally. And this basically answers the question of whose fault was it. I believe they would automatically blame us humans first and then inspect the robot to see what was the problem after all.

Legal & Ethical Issues

The article, "Open source textbook program expanding in coming months" explains how schools are trying to keep updated with the technology and education. They were deciding on pursuing open source text books instead of the old traditional textbooks. Now a days I feel that students don't really like reading books in their hands and enjoy being more in the internet reading online. I believe that later on eventually textbooks wont exist and everything will be required to do online. I think that this open source textbook idea will be great for students to be more engaged in doing homework. They just seem to keep on coming up with brilliant ideas for students to get interested in school while it being fun.

Security and Privacy

The article I read was, Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach. This article talked about how the Target company was hacked and those customers who had shopped from November 27 and December 15 2013 were most likely to be affected. I personally had shopped during these days at Target and my bank company Chase had sent me a new card just in case if I had been robbed. According to the reading Target said that were speeding up the high security of their credit cards. So they're coming up with some credit cards that come embedded with a tiny microprocessor chip. They say that by having these new credit cards it will make it harder for cyber criminals to access someone's data. For example even when I'm buying stuff online I don't feel really safe about giving out my card information, but I still do. And as of today nothing bad has happened with my bank account. I believe that credit cards will continue to advance like technology keeps advancing throughout the years.