Browsing Høgskolen i Østfold by Subject "artificial intelligence"
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AI in Context and the Sustainable Development Goals: Factoring in the Unsustainability of the Sociotechnical System
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-05)Artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with both positive and negative impacts on both people and planet, and much attention is currently devoted to analyzing and valuating these impacts. In 2015, the UN set 17 Sustainable ... -
Climate change and the political pathways of AI: The technocracy-democracy dilemma in light of artificial intelligence and human agency
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)It is generally thought that artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on politics and democracy. Meanwhile, the technology is also often hailed a solution to key societal and environmental challenges. It raises ... -
Healthcare Digitalisation and the Changing Nature of Work and Society
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Digital technologies have profound effects on all areas of modern life, including the workplace. Certain forms of digitalisation entail simply exchanging digital files for paper, while more complex instances involve machines ... -
Identification and classification of transportation disaster tweets using improved bidirectional encoder representations from transformers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Social Media today has become the most relevant and affordable platform to express one’s views in real-time. The #Endsars protest in Nigeria and the COVID-19 pandemic have proven how important and reliant both government ... -
Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of ... -
Predicting COVID-19 cases in South Korea with all K-edited nearest neighbors noise filter and machine learning techniques
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The application of machine learning techniques to the epidemiology of COVID-19 is a necessary measure that can be exploited to curtail the further spread of this endemic. Conventional techniques used to determine the ... -
Research in AI has Implications for Society: How do we Respond?
(Journal article, 2021)Artificial intelligence (AI) offers previously unimaginable possibilities, solving problems faster and more creatively than before, representing and inviting hope and change, but also fear and resistance. Unfortunately, ... -
Scaffolding Human Champions: AI as a More Competent Other
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Artifcial intelligence (AI) has surpassed humans in a number of specialised intellectual activities—chess and Go being two of many examples. Amongst the many potential consequences of such a development, I focus on how we ...