Technology

The Authority of the Inscrutable: An Interview with Cathy O’Neil

Carlos Delclós

Conversation with Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction", about the role algorithms have played on the global crisis we are experiencing in recent years.

The Singularity

José Ignacio Latorre

Computation’s possibility for self-learning is leading us towards a point of technological singularity where an artificial intelligence, capable of self-improvement, will surpass the limits of human intelligence.

The Error in the Digital Era

Ferran Esteve

A review of glitch art, wrongly-programmed algorithms and the philosophy of Silicon Valley to rethink the promise of digital perfection.

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Efraín Foglia | Ferran Esteve | Lucía Lijtmaer | Luis Paadín | Óscar Marín Miró | Ramon Mas Baucells

We invited several authors to explain what this quote by Arthur C. Clarke conjures up for them.

Internet, Internet!

The better we know the potentials and risks of the Internet and the technologies that accelerate and expand it, the better we will be able to use them to create a more critical, creative and democratic world.

Freeport: a Dissection of the Invisible Internet

Karma Peiró

A summer school focusing on art, communication technologies and a networked planet.

The End of Trust?

Ferran Esteve

After decades of recognition and social prestige, the companies of the digital economy are starting to receive criticisms that are questioning their reputation.

The 4.0 Revolution and its Tunes

Ramon Sangüesa

As in the previous pointzero revolutions, the story of efficiency and economic growth coexists with the possibility of an alternative narrative that situates the community at the centre.

Not Computable

David Casacuberta

Algorithms are not yet able to capture all the nuances of a human decision, so there are some decisions that, for the moment, only we can take.

World Siliconization

Éric Sadin

The irresistible expansion of digital liberalism points towards regulating, for the sole purpose of benefit, the course of life through algorithms.

Bias in a Feedback Loop: Fuelling Algorithmic Injustice

David Casacuberta

In order to prevent machine learning algorithms from perpetuating social inequalities, public debate is necessary on which problems are automatable.

Machines Now Know How to Terrorise Humans

Cristina Sáez

The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.