IoUC’s Monthly Recap (Mar. 2016) – Stories Relating to the Internet of Unintended Consequences

Welcome to our monthly recap of stories relating to The Internet of Unintended Consequences. This month’s stories cover many issues including: robot & AI stats, trends, & predictions; social media & depression; digital citizenship & cyber-bullying concerns; how to empower digital government?; driverless car legalities; protecting your prvacy online; fighting robot imposters; and more.

These are some of the articles, reports, posts, etc. that caught our attention this week. We originally send them out through our twitter account @I_oUC, so follow us to get them as we find them. But many of them are such great resources we don’t want you to miss them, so we’ve decided to put them as a weekly recap. The links will take you to their original sources, whether Lexology, PC Mag, SC Mag, NLR, and/or others. Enjoy and let us know some of the stories you’ve found interesting this week. Just share in the comments below.  

• Globe Announces Highly-Successful Pilot Run of Digital Thumbprint Program ‪#IoUCDigCit ‪http://ow.ly/103oyr 

• Countries with greatest number of robots ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/103o8x 

• “Behind The Scenes”, Host James Earl Jones for Public TV, Features Content on Online Security ‪http://ow.ly/1029aJ 

• Amazon’s conference on robotics and artificial intelligence shrouded in mystery ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/ZYvrP 

• Microsoft Axes Twitter Bot That Regurgitated Internet Racism ‪http://ow.ly/ZYvo8 

• The Race Is On to Control Artificial Intelligence, and Tech’s Future ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/ZX57G 

• Robot Law: Preventing Serious And Subtle Threats — An Interview With A. Michael Froomkin ‪http://ow.ly/ZX53L 

• How Does Social Media Play Into Today’s Job Search? ‪http://ow.ly/ZUx8a 

• What Is a Robot, Really? ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/ZRR5C 

• Some Artificial Intelligence Applications Are Making Humans Better People ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/ZRQxP 

• Depressed? Blame It On Social Media! ‪http://ow.ly/ZRAjc 

• Washington’s Digital Citizenship Legislation Could be Model ‪#IoUCDigCit

• The Digital Citizenship Daily ‪#IoUCDigCit

• Digital Citizenship | Piktochart Infographic ‪#IoUCDigCit

• Our tech future: the rich own the robots while the poor have ‘job mortgages’ ‪#IoUCRobots

• With Artificial Intelligence, Will Machines Be as Stupid as People? ‪#IoUCRobots

• Joke-Telling Robots Are the Final Frontier of Artificial Intelligence ‪#IoUCRobots

• Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence ‪#IoUCRobots

• How to Empower Digital Government ‪#oUCDigGov

• Social media is changing the workplace ‪http://ow.ly/ZL0N1 

• Driverless Cars: 3 Things for Lawyers to Know ‪http://ow.ly/ZylFY 

• Yik Yak Founders Talk Monetization, Cyberbullying & Why They’re Keeping All Your Data At SXSW ‪http://ow.ly/ZtrIw 

• Protecting the Privacy of Internet Users ‪http://ow.ly/ZqEXW 

• Online Users Are Not Protecting Their Own Security ‪http://ow.ly/ZqEHQ 

• How to stop harassment in video games ‪http://ow.ly/ZqE0m 

• SXSW’s Online Harassment Summit Nods At The Problem, But Finds Few Real Solutions ‪http://ow.ly/ZqCZh 

• Bill Gates hosts ‘Ask Me Anything’ session, talks about artificial intelligence ‪http://ow.ly/Zis5P 

• 4 IoT Predictions for the Future of Digital Government From CSRA Inc.’s CEO ‪#IoUCDigGov ‪http://ow.ly/ZirIk 

• Syfy’s “The Internet Ruined My Life” Is A Cautionary Tale In Cyberbullying ‪http://ow.ly/Ziq6i 

• Women’s Day 2016: A guide to staying safe on social media in the 21st century – Tech2 ‪http://ow.ly/ZdlO8 

• Adults warned to behave themselves online in case bad example leads kids to cyber bullying. ‪http://ow.ly/ZaXBq 

• Linked to bullying and even murder, can anonymous apps like Kik ever be safe? ‪http://ow.ly/ZaXi4 

• Parents can be ‘neglectful’ over use of technology ‪http://ow.ly/ZaX5Y 

• Artificial Intelligence Now Predicts the Future You ‪http://ow.ly/Zamj6 

• How to fight robot impostors ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/ZalRS 

• Google’s Artificial Intelligence Paintings Auction ‪http://ow.ly/Z4wwu 

• The Secret History Of American Robot Law ‪http://ow.ly/Z4vUd 

• Check In With the Velociraptor at the World’s First Robot Hotel ‪#IoUCRobots ‪http://ow.ly/Z4vI8 

• Children could SUE parents and have them JAILED for posting photos of them on Facebook ‪http://ow.ly/Z1rD2 

• How Silicon Valley’s parents keep their children safe online ‪http://ow.ly/Z1rua 

• Law2sm Recap: Stories Related to Cyber-bullying 3/1/16 ‪#IoUCDigCit ‪http://ow.ly/YTPlu 

• IoUC’s Monthly Recap (Feb. 2016) – Stories Relating to the Internet of Unintended Consequences ‪http://ow.ly/YTNkY