Tag Archives: Digital society

Should AI Get Legal Rights? | WIRED

Posted on September 5, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Very interesting article published yesterday in Wired magazine. “Model welfare” is an emerging field of research that seeks to determine whether AI is conscious and, if so, how humanity should respond (e.g., should AI have/deserve “rights”?) — Read on http://www.wired.com/story/model-welfare-artificial-intelligence-sentience/

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Oh, the irony!

Posted on February 19, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

Because many of the courses I teach in the User Experience (UX) program at Milwaukee School of Engineering are subjects that didn’t even really exist 40 years ago and are still growing and developing domain parameters by the day (e.g., … Continue reading →

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Extinction immanent? (and imminent?) Michael Crichton on “cyberspace” dooming human innovation/evolution and forecasting the end of the species

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

I’m teaching “Digital Society” this semester, and as fate would have it, over my holiday break I decided to read Michael Crichton’s The Lost World, a novel I’d never read before even though I love Michael Crichton and have probably … Continue reading →

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How does AI square with religion?

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

Because I teach political science courses, as well as a course titled “Digital Society,” I subscribe to an email newsletter from Project Liberty. Some info on that: Project Liberty is advancing the responsible development of the internet of tomorrow – … Continue reading →

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Collision Course

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

Just a day-in-the-life post here. I drove my husband to the eye doctor yesterday and had to wait for him in my car because the office’s COVID policy didn’t allow anyone but patients in the waiting room. So there I … Continue reading →

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Better research using Google’s lesser-known search tools

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

Research is so boring. Except when you find amazing stuff that totally elevates your work. Then it’s actually cool. People like learning new things, gaining new insights, pulling back the curtain to see who’s really pulling the levers behind the … Continue reading →

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What’s in a tagline? My blog’s identity: Version 4.0

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Katherine Wikoff

I’m developing a new course at MSOE called “SS 3700 Digital Society.” To say I’m excited is to understate my enthusiasm for this topic. As a political science major who took computer programming classes in the late 1970s using a … Continue reading →

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