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14 October, 2019

There will be no timetabled classes, no exams and no ATAR at the end of year 12 for students at a new independent high school in Sydney's west. Instead, students at the new CathWest Innovation College, with campuses in Mount Druitt and Emu Plains, will complete two terms of set projects before developing solutions to their problems, building portfolios to apply to university or having the choice to pitch ideas directly to businesses. we're effectively gutting the science rooms and they'll become our makers space with state-of-the-art innovation technology and the classrooms will become design studios where students will do their original work," Ms Larkin said.

https://theworldnews.net/au-news/no-set-classes-exams-or-atars-at-new-sydney-school

Almost No One Out There Thinks That Isaac Asimov's Three Laws Could Work For Truly Intelligent AI. The First Law fails because of ambiguity in language, and because of complicated ethical problems that are too complex to have a simple yes or no answer. The Second Law fails because of the unethical nature of having a law that requires sentient beings to remain as slaves. The Third Law fails because it results in a permanent social stratification, with the vast amount of potential exploitation built into this system of laws.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/10/01/1949229/almost-no-one-out-there-thinks-that-isaac-asimovs-three-laws-could-work-for-truly-intelligent-ai