When Richard Nixon taped conversations in the Oval Office, he felt sure that only he and historians in the distant future would have access to them. I want to make sure that I can shut my agent off. I even want a periodic check on whether the agent holds any sensitive information. Sort of a security clearance for my agent.
Predictor: Maes, Pattie
Prediction, in context:In her 1995 book “Life on the Screen,” Sherry Turkle – an accomplished social psychologist, sociologist and anthropologist from MIT whose studies centered around people and computers for decades – talks about the AI research by Pattie Maes. Turkle writes: ”Users [of Maes’s experimental intelligent agents] expressed anxiety about social and legal questions. Could they be held responsible for their agents’ actions and transactions? Who owns the immense stores of information about their habits that their agents might come to possess? After hearing a presentation of Maes’s ideas, one businessman responded with the following comment: ‘When Richard Nixon taped conversations in the Oval Office, he felt sure that only he and historians in the distant future would have access to them. I want to make sure that I can shut my agent off. I even want a periodic check on whether the agent holds any sensitive information. Sort of a security clearance for my agent.'”
Biography:Pattie Maes , a researcher at MIT’s Media Lab, was a founder and board member of Firefly Network, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass. Ð one of the first companies to commercialize personalization and profiling technology (Firefly was acquired by Microsoft in 1998). She was also a founder and a board member of Open Ratings, Inc., a provider of performance data on businesses for B2B ecommerce. (Research Scientist/Illuminator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Intelligent Agents/AI
Name of publication: Life on the Screen (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 3: Making a Pass at a Robot
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 100
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