AI = artificial intelligence
So far, I have never dealt with my former profession or the topics of my education in this blog. As an electrical engineer, you learn how to develop digital and analog systems. In the case of digital systems, it is inevitably necessary to deal with programming, because a microprocessor without firmware/software does nothing at all except consume electricity. In this profession one is very attached to the factual and practical and does not necessarily feel called to influence politics or society. In the meantime, however, there are a number of topics where the fundamentals of electrical engineering would be very helpful for the discussion of socio-political issues. Danisch (a German blogger) does this every now and then when he looks at current topics from the point of view of the computer scientist, which I appreciate very much. Continue reading AI is always going to be abused