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Katina Michael is a professor in
the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of
Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Email:
katina@uow.edu.au.
MG Michael, is an honorary associate professor at the School of
Computing and Information Technology at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Email: mgm@
uow.edu.au.

In closing his March 2011 TEDtalk,
he emphasized that we are living
in a time of unexpected possibilities and that the secret to our future
may well be to take a "really positive
view" of unintended consequences
in going forward.
We as guest editors of this Technology and Society Magazine special
section prefer to take the approach of
"cautious optimism," whereby we can
steer technologies toward sustainable
causes, and then expect at least some
positive return. Unknown unknowns
may not be the biggest problem we
are facing, but deliberately covering
up the so-named unknown knowns.
We would like to thank the
authors and reviewers for their contributions. In this section we have
incorporated
perspectives
that
explore methodologies that could be
used to build a better future, and that
investigate the potential of new technologies like wearables. We consider
the impacts of artificial intelligence
through science fiction, looking at
the way that the future field of robotics might apply to everyday people,
including the implications for everyday citizenry. We've also included a
fiction piece on the possibilities of
crossing the human evolutionary
gap, and even an original interview
with a humanoid robot, a sure sign
of the times we live in. Augmenting
this material, the editor has included
relevant articles on the future relations between humans and artificial
intelligence, on help for those subject
to Internet externalities like cybersex
addiction and online Internet addiction, on how to reclaim conversation,
and more.

Acknowledgment
This T&S Magazine special section on "Unintended Consequences
of Living with AI, The Paradox of
Technological Potential - Part II,"
supplements a Special Issue of
IEEE Potentials published Sept./
Oct. 2016, "The Paradox of Technological Potential - Part I."

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Author Information
Ramona Pringle is an assistant professor in the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University, Toronto, and Creative
Director of the Transmedia Zone, an
incubator for the future of media.
Email: ramona.pringle@ryerson.ca.
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