Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

with Cambridge Analytica and left
association
University for Stanford in 2014.
Cambridge
plays a significant role in
Technology
our senses and making more of the
augmenting
knowable. It can bring very small or very
world
objects into visibility, make very fast or
large
slow processes perceptible, reveal invisible
very
and render complex phenomena
relations
In extending our cognitive abilities,
intelligible.
enlarges what we can know and
technology
does it mean to be at the frontier of
What
We have drills that bore 100 floors
knowledge?
into polar ice to extract ice cores that
down
climate data from a time long before
contain
this, in the 2013 study, Kosinski’s team
Before
issued the following warning.
had
of the ocean, and yet less is known
bottom
the Earth’s seabed than about the surface
about
Mars. Computers are generating proofs of
of
unsolved problems of mathematics,
complex
of which are beyond our human capacity
some
verify. Digital and multimedia art open
to
avenues of expression, with unclear
new
and implications. We have models
limitations
complex systems, fed by big data and
of
by AI algorithms, producing outcomes
engined
predictions that influence decisions with
and
humanconsequences.
pushes the frontier of our knowledge
Technology
the same time as it expands the set of known
at
At the beginning of this chapter we
unknowns.
you to consider whether knowledge
invited
can be produced without the use of
today
If so, what new questions about
technology.
terms: Bouman
Search
of black hole
picture
do you take an image of an object
How
appears to us on Earth as small as an
that
III. Methods and tools
III. Methods and tools
Predictability of individual attributes from digital records of behavior may have considerable negative
implications, because it can easily be applied to large numbers of people without obtaining their individual
consent and without them noticing. Commercial companies, governmental institutions, or even one’s Facebook
friends could use software to infer attributes such as intelligence, sexual orientation, or political views that
an individual may not have intended to share. One can imagine situations in which such predictions, even if
incorrect, could pose a threat to an individual’s well-being, freedom, or even life.
(Matz et al 2017)
Making connections
Technopolitics
Chapter 2, section IV, considers the political implications
of this research.
III.3 Technology at the frontier of
knowledge
verification, validity and reliability arise?
transforms how we can know it.
For discussion
Making connections
Technological toolkits
How to take a picture of a black hole
Consider the dierent areas of knowledge. How
with Katie Bouman
is technology changing the methods and tools
available for the production of knowledge?
TEDTalk
orange on the surface of the moon? What
humans. We have powerful sonar to map the
75