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I’m liveblogging the 4th annual Gikii conference, kindly hosted by IViR in Amsterdam. (Gikii Programme)

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EAT ME

Miranda Mowbray & Burkhard Schaffer

Memory spot mico computers.

Medical microbots – selfassembling stomach bots and you. Molecular computing can speed up computing – data as DNA strings. Molecular computing scales better than conventional computing.

We are DNA robots.

Data protection law implications. Digital DNA data and processing. We are DNA storage devices that store data about other people (our relatives, etc). We are all data processors.

Evidence law implications = distinction between computer generated statements and eyewitness statements. (me: Think about red light cameras and evidence statements by technicians that they were working correctly at the time they took the picture). We don’t do this in the human/DNA space *now, but in fact are starting to – brain scans.

Is this the start of the end of a distinction between storing data in carbon — people and their DNA — and silicon — forensic computing — in evidence law.

Follow up question from audience: Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the act of observation changing things (esp in quantum computing). Answer: happens in human evidence — act of remembering effectively overwrites with what you think you remembered.

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Blade Runner, Time Scarcity, and the Optimal Lifespan of Robots and Clones

FE Guerra-Pujol

Turing and the question of lifespan of robots and clone – theme of Blade Runner (me – PKD again).

Coase and clones. Maybe the problem in bladerunner framework not robot rights but rather Tyrell’s monopoly on replicants and the ability of replicants to go to other corps, collectively bargain, and so on. Ties into IP rights in this instance as well (how would IP tie replicants to Tyrell corp)

My added obligatory Tears in the Rain quote:

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.

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CyberTags: The third generation of electronic offender monitoring systems

Richard Jones

Electronic monitoring of offenders – future gazing.

Big question – does electronic monitoring work? Definitely not clear at all that works without other things such as rehab programs. Often just left to monitor (spew out data) without much.

New monitors can tell if on drugs, have two way voice communications (talking to your ankle tag!), sleep pattern monitoring (for drug use), location monitoring for exclusion zones.

New gen involves way to build in some of the rehab type bits into the monitoring — late to report for curfew, your probation officer calls you up and asks you why.

Ideology – new directions in rehabilitation theory – reshape the identify of the person: “desistance”.

Alternative reality tunnel of thinking about this as a “cyborg” – feedback of data changes behaviour.

Q’s – points out ethics of memory erasure.

Me – interesting to match this with the AI stuff earlier. The electronic nanny state.