Students beware: 7 things you must know about social media
Social media can be a great way to share information and to stay informed about what’s going on in the lives of your friends and family. But there’s a dark…
Tagged: David Gunkel
NIU’s David Gunkel takes a serious look at ‘Robot Rights’
Should intelligent machines be due some level of social standing and respect?
They recommend restaurants, music and driving routes for us. They beat us at digital games and interact socially. They can—and increasingly will—drive our vehicles. We use various forms of robots…
Speak Your Mind
Should Apple keep the “backdoors” of iPhones locked?
The FBI has the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino assailants – but can’t unlock it to find what information is waiting inside. Apple could enable the federal government…
Speak Your Mind
What will be the big stories of 2016?
After all of the media reflection on 2015, the NIU Newsroom decided to turn its attention to the future. In the accompanying Speak Your Mind video, we ask three NIU…
Dig It to the End
Will rock ’n’ roll ‘go down in history’ like classical music?
Danny Rapp issued a famous and urgent proclamation nearly 60 years ago with The Juniors snapping their fingers at his side “Rock and roll is here to stay. It will…
Replaced by a robot?
Five jobs that could be manned by automatons in the future
For many of us, it still seems like the stuff of science fiction, but the day and age of robots is well upon us, according to NIU‘s David Gunkel. Over…
Social Media: Changing the rules of business ethics
It’s a brave new world out on the web, says NIU’s David J. Gunkel
The web as we know it is neither a static nor stable medium. It is evolving. And as it evolves, so too do the moral opportunities and challenges. The first…
Apocalyptic rhetoric about AI distracts from more immediate, pressing concerns
by Professor David Gunkel Stephen Hawking recently told the BBC that “the development of full artificial intelligence (AI) could spell the end of the human race.” And Hawking is not…
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