Sunday, December 27, 2020

Yeah, we thought of that centuries ago.

http://iculture.spb.ru/index.php/stucult/article/view/1266

CONFUCIANISM AND THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The article examines ethical issues related to the development of artificial intelligence from the point of view of Confucianism. Artificial intelligence (AI) is by far the hottest topic in the world, and related ethical issues are also major issues discussed in the field of philosophy and cultural studies. Despite its antiquity, there are judgments in Confucian teaching that can be interpreted as conceptual support and formulation of guidelines for the ethics of artificial intelligence. First, through the definition of “human” in Confucianism, the possibility of determining the social status of artificial intelligence is offered. Secondly, in Confucianism, positions are formulated in relation to the discourse on the standardization of ethics for artificial intelligence. Thirdly, Confucian teachings contain the basis for the study of a hybrid existence that combines artificial intelligence and the human body. It is concluded that the contribution of Confucianism in this area lies in its indirectly normative principle, within the framework of the idea “you need to correct people with the help of people until they change





Ethically legal or legally ethical?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1023263X20981566

Artificial intelligence and human rights: Between law and ethics

The ethics and law of AI address the same domain, namely, the present and future impacts of AI on individuals, society, and the environment. Both are meant to provide normative guidance, proposing rules and values on which basis to govern human action and determine the constrains, structures and functions of AI-enabled socio-technical systems. This article examines the way in which AI is addressed by ethical and legal rules, principles and arguments. It considers the extent to which the demands of law and ethics may pull in different directions or rather overlap, and examines how they can be coordinated, while remaining in a productive dialectical tension. In particular, it argues that human/fundamental rights and social values are central to both ethics and law. Even though can be framed in different ways, they can provide a useful normative reference for linking ethics and law in addressing the normative issues arising in connection with AI.





Probably not funded by certain large tech firms.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Antitrust-and-Artificial-Intelligence-(AAI)%3A-and-AI-Eliot/3e3444ee9c01cc56263bced7c65b810f5876d2b6

Antitrust and Artificial Intelligence (AAI): Antitrust Vigilance Lifecycle and AI Legal Reasoning Autonomy

There is an increasing interest in the entwining of the field of antitrust with the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), frequently referred to jointly as Antitrust and AI (AAI) in the research literature. This study focuses on the synergies entangling antitrust and AI, doing so to extend the literature by proffering the primary ways that these two fields intersect, consisting of: (1) the application of antitrust to AI, and (2) the application of AI to antitrust. To date, most of the existing research on this intermixing has concentrated on the former, namely the application of antitrust to AI, entailing how the marketplace will be altered by the advent of AI and the potential for adverse antitrust behaviors arising accordingly. Opting to explore more deeply the other side of this coin, this research closely examines the application of AI to antitrust and establishes an antitrust vigilance lifecycle to which AI is predicted to be substantively infused for purposes of enabling and bolstering antitrust detection, enforcement, and post enforcement monitoring. Furthermore, a gradual and incremental injection of AI into antitrust vigilance is anticipated to occur as significant advances emerge amidst the Levels of Autonomy (LoA) for AI Legal Reasoning (AILR).





What does not kill us makes us stronger?

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2781/invited1.pdf

Rethinking Democracy in the “Pandemic Society” A journey in search of the governance with, of and by AI

The COVID-19 outbreak had a swift and severe impact on our lives, and a subtle transformation is affecting Democracy as we are used to knowing it. In this paper I argue that the “Pandemic Society” we are now experiencing magnifies a dilemma already evident in the recent evolution of digital government and governance: securing citizens’ privacy or delivering better services – now including the protection of personal health. In this scenario, while human interactions are being permanently modified by the mediation of technologies, and in particular the accelerated adoption of Artificial Intelligence, a fundamental question to be addressed is how to ensure digital resilience and collective well-being while safeguarding liberal democracy and individual rights. Finding an answer to this challenge requires innovating the democratic settings and functioning of global governance arrangements in the digital age. Yet too little is known about the chances and the conditions for AI to become supportive of the needed quantity and quality of democratic innovation in the forthcoming decades. I thus elaborate on the quest for redesigning institutional frameworks to rethink and innovate our democratic systems and instruments for deliberation, where the AI phenomenon - under wide scrutiny now also at policy and public service levels – becomes crucial. I conclude suggesting directions for further research and new avenues for policy design and governance in the age of digital transformation.





Tips on investing?

https://econpapers.repec.org/article/slsipmsls/v_3a39_3ay_3a2020_3a6.htm

The Impact of Digitalization on the Economy: A Review Article on the NBER Volume "Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda"

Digitalization is affecting every aspect of our economy and our society. A set of new technologies are behind this latest surge - robotic process automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), big data, cloud computing, the internet of things and blockchain. This volume, {The Economics of Artificial Intelligence}, focuses on the impact, real and prospective, of machine learning (ML), on the economy. The authors tackle a wide range of topics, including how it is impacting innovation, the consequences for employment and economic growth, issues related to privacy, international trade and ultimately, how AI will affect the economics discipline itself. The contributors, overall, take a positive view of the impact of AI on economic outcomes. They also acknowledge, however, that policies related to redistribution, privacy and competition are needed to ensure that the benefits of digitalization are shared appropriately.





Would I be wrong if I said this seems much more anti-Facebook than anti-trust?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/26/anti-facebook-agitators-biden-era-450347

Anti-Facebook agitators see their moment under Biden

… Democrats widely accuse Facebook leaders of permitting misinformation to appease Trump and his Republican allies. Biden’s campaign representatives have also lambasted Facebook for choosing not to remove Trump’s misleading claims from their pages and for broadly halting political advertising in the days immediately before and after the Nov. 3 election.

It's just not a great business strategy to piss off the incoming president,” said Sally Hubbard, the director of enforcement strategy at the Open Markets Institute, which has advocated for antitrust enforcement against Facebook, Google and other big tech firms.





Tools. Some Privacy enhancements, but mostly to plant trees?

https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-to-use-ecosia-instead-of-other-search-engines/

10 Reasons to Use Ecosia Instead of Other Search Engines



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