Where does this sit on the scale of pandemic response? A police enforced prescription? I suppose it could be worse: Army hunting anyone outside their homes with flame throwers.
Coronavirus lockdown in Greece requires people to text authorities before leaving home
The lockdown will start at daybreak Saturday and last until the end of the month. With infections surging across the country, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he acted before patients overwhelm hospitals.
… As part of the lockdown, all retail stores except those selling essential items such as food, medication, and fuel will be closed.
… People will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, physical exercise or medical reasons, and only after sending a text message to authorities.
Perspective.
It’s Managers, Not Workers, Who Are Losing Jobs To AI And Robots, Study Shows
Managers, not lower-level employees, are seeing their ranks diminished with the onset of artificial intelligence and robots, a new study out of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School finds. That’s because as AI and robotics expands within a business, managers can oversee a wider breadth of operations.
In a recent podcast discussion, Lynn Wu, professor at The Wharton School and AIB Affiliated Faculty, points out that “contrary to the popular notion that robots will replace human labor, we find robot-adopting firms employed more people over time. Any displacement of labor came from firms that did not adopt robots. These non-adopting firms actually lost their competitiveness — and they had to lay off workers.” Details of Wu’s study, based on looking at the performance of firms that purchased AI and robots over a 20-year period in Canada, will be published in the INFORMS journal Management Science.
Semantics?
http://www.dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/3203
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF ETHICS
While reflecting upon artificial intelligence, one of its characteristics is often highlighted: its complexity. Sometimes the complexity of artificial intelligence is even used as an argument against holding humans responsible for it. At the same time, surprisingly the complexity of ethics is usually perceived with a reductionist understanding of ethics. In this article, the concept “artificial intelligence” itself is critically reviewed resulting in the introduction of a more adequate term: “databased systems.” Beyond that, I argue against the possibility of “ethical” databased systems and in favour of databased systems with ethics. Finally, the complexity of ethics and its consequences for the ethical dimension of technology-based innovation will be in the focus.
Another view…
https://jurnal.unej.ac.id/index.php/eJLH/article/view/18380
Legal Aspect of Artificial Intelligence on Automated Decision Making: Indonesia, the European Union, the United States and China
This paper analyzes the urgency of a comprehensive legal framework of automated decision-making as part of Artificial Intelligence in Indonesia by comparing it in the European Union, the United States, and China. More importantly, this paper inquires about the status quo of the legal protection of automated decision-making In Indonesia. Besides, this paper will also highlight the involvement of profiling in an automated decision-making system and discuss personal data protection implementation. Members of the European Union set out a law in the General Data Protection Regulation that prohibits Automated Decision-Making to a certain extent. Whereas in the United States, the practice of automated decision-making is rather usual. Lastly, China takes rather an exceptional measure and develops a social credit system. The analysis asserts how Indonesia has weak legal protection towards personal data and profiling that could essentially facilitate automated decision-making. The provision of automated decision-making and Profiling is the absolute bare minimum on the newest Personal Data Protection Regulation Draft. It does not give enough legal certainty towards the matter of automated decision-making and profiling. Thus, it is paramount for the lawmaker to comprise a comprehensive regulation on automated decision-making, including profiling, by adopting the legal framework of the General Data Protection Regulation.
A mere nibble (as fines go) but multiply this by the number of countries in the world…
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1763111/business-economy
Turkish competition board hits Google with $25m fine
Google has been hit with a 196.7 million Turkish lira ($25.6 million) fine by the Turkish Competition Board as part of an investigation against the company.
The decision comes amid growing government control of Internet in the country.
… Google is accused of breaching the law by complicating search results in the content services market by placing text ads at the top of organic search results. Therefore, some companies do not show up in searches if they do not generate advertisement revenue for Google.
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