Buongiorno,
Sebbene l'argomento trattato non sia direttamente "nexiano", mi
permetto comunque di suggerire la lettura di questo bell'articolo di F.
von Hippel, pubblicato sul Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, certamente
rilevante per tutti gli scienziati che sentono la responsabilità data
loro dalla posizione particolare che occupano nella società:
"NOT JUST OPPENHEIMER"
https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/not-just-oppenheimer/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=MondayNewsletter03112024&utm_content=NuclearRisk_NotJustOppenheimer_03102024
Diego
--
Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124
Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it)
FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it)
CNR/GI-STS (http://gists.pi.cnr.it)
https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, fax:
+390506212040
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The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in
the
process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by
kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to
combine
the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the
practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark
on
this great task.
Above all, remember your humanity.
-- Sir Joseph Rotblat
I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its
subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous
affection
for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer
systems
that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without
ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete
with
respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we
anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is
more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […]
One
can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I
actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my
work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to
this
use?"
-- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 -
Aug. 1986]
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