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Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

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    So I started my first job
    as a computer programmer
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    in my very first year of college,
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    basically as a teenager.
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    Soon after I started working,
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    writing software in a company,
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    a manager who worked at the company
    came down to where I was,
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    and he whispered to me,
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    "Can he tell if I'm lying?"
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    There was nobody else in the room.
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    "Can who tell if you're lying,
    and why are we whispering?"
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    The manager pointed
    at the computer in the room.
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    "Can he tell if I'm lying?"
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    Well, that manager was having
    an affair with the receptionist,
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    and I was still a teenager,
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    so I whisper-shouted back to him,
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    "Yes, the computer can tell
    if you're lying."
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    (Laughter)
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    Well, I laughed, but actually
    the laugh's on me.
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    Nowadays, there are computational systems
    that can suss out emotional states,
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    and even lying,
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    from processing human faces.
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    Advertisers and even governments
    are very interested.
Title:
Machine intelligence makes human morals more important
Speaker:
Zeynep Tufekci
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
17:42

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