{"title":"Star Trek for a Better Tomorrow: Inventing the Future One Fantasy at a Time","authors":"T. McGettigan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3669959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3669959","url":null,"abstract":"Science is the most effective means humans have ever devised to transform fantasies into reality. To put it another way, tantalizing fantasies often inspire knowledge-seekers to purposefully shift the boundaries between fact and fantasy in order to realize their far-fetched dreams. Indeed, the most extraordinary feat of the space age, the Apollo 11 moon landing, was essentially an epic scientific effort to realize a particularly captivating fantasy.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121418017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working Document: Toward a Draft Text of a Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Maksim Karliuk","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3916077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3916077","url":null,"abstract":"This working document provides with background information as a starting point for the development of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126627286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmic Decision-Making in AVs: Understanding Ethical and Technical Concerns for Smart Cities","authors":"H. S. M. Lim, Araz Taeihagh","doi":"10.3390/su11205791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205791","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are increasingly embraced around the world to advance smart mobility and more broadly, smart, and sustainable cities. Algorithms form the basis of decision-making in AVs, allowing them to perform driving tasks autonomously, efficiently, and more safely than human drivers and offering various economic, social, and environmental benefits. However, algorithmic decision-making in AVs can also introduce new issues that create new safety risks and perpetuate discrimination. We identify bias, ethics, and perverse incentives as key ethical issues in the AV algorithms’ decision-making that can create new safety risks and discriminatory outcomes. Technical issues in the AVs’ perception, decision-making and control algorithms, limitations of existing AV testing and verification methods, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities can also undermine the performance of the AV system. This article investigates the ethical and technical concerns surrounding algorithmic decision-making in AVs by exploring how driving decisions can perpetuate discrimination and create new safety risks for the public. We discuss steps taken to address these issues, highlight the existing research gaps and the need to mitigate these issues through the design of AV’s algorithms and of policies and regulations to fully realise AVs’ benefits for smart and sustainable cities.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127314420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the implementation of the Universal Basic Income as a response to technological unemployment","authors":"Le Dong Hai Nguyen","doi":"10.51483/IJMRE.1.3.2021.1-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51483/IJMRE.1.3.2021.1-6","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of automation on our economy and society are more palpable than ever, with nearly half of jobs at risk of being fully executed by machines over the next decade or two. Policymakers and scholars alike have championed the Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a catch-all solution to this problem. This paper examines the shortcomings of UBI in addressing the automation-led large-scale displacement of labor by analyzing empirical data from previous UBI-comparable experiments and presenting theoretical projections that highlight disappointing impacts of UBI in the improvement of relevant living standards and employability metrics among pensioners. Finally, a recommendation shall be made for the retainment of existing means-tested welfare programs while bolstering funding and R&D for more up-to-date worker training schemes as a more effective solution to technological unemployment.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122895316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Extension of Asimov's Robotics Laws","authors":"Jan Nagler, J. van den Hoven, D. Helbing","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3110582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3110582","url":null,"abstract":"In a world, where Artificial Intelligence systems will decide about increasingly many issues, including life and death, how should autonomous systems faced with ethical dilemmas decide, and what is required from humans?","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128496574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ai as the Next Gpt: A Political-Economy Perspective","authors":"M. Trajtenberg","doi":"10.3386/W24245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3386/W24245","url":null,"abstract":"History suggests that dismal prophecies regarding the impact of great technological advances rarely come to pass. Yet, as many occupations will indeed vanish with the advent of AI as the new General Purpose Technology (GPT), we should search for ways to ameliorate the detrimental effects of AI, and enhance its positive ones, particularly in: (1) education and skills development: need to move away from the centuries-old \"factory model\" of education, and develop instead skills relevant for an AI-based economy – analytical, creative, interpersonal, and emotional. (2) The professionalization of personal care occupations, particularly in healthcare and education; these are to provide the bulk of future employment growth, yet as performed today involve little training and technology, and confer low wages. New, higher standards and academic requirements should be set for these occupations, which would enable AI to benefit both providers and users. (3) Affect the direction of technical advance – we distinguish between \"human-enhancing innovations\" (HEI), that magnify and enhance sensory, motoric, and other such human capabilities, and \"human-replacing innovations\" (HRI), which replace human intervention, and often leave for humans mostly \"dumb\" jobs. AI-based HEI's have the potential to unleash a new wave of creativity and productivity, particularly in services, whereas HRI's might just decrease employment and give rise to unworthy jobs.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133225832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Safety and Reproducibility: Establishing Robust Foundations for the Neuropsychology of Human Values","authors":"G. Sarma, Nick J. Hay, A. Safron","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-99229-7_45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99229-7_45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116925071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Supreme Kondratieff","authors":"Stephen I. Ternyik","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2965572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2965572","url":null,"abstract":"The coming wave of exponential technology signals a transformation of traditional patterns (geometric, linear, cubic) in human economic history. This great transition towards exponential knowledge automation requires a new societal deal for the future of the capitalist welfare system. Decisive strategies to cope with this tall order for predicitve analytics and policy making are being discussed, with a methodical focus on the human learning curve and the accounts of society.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122027477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Illusion of Newness: The Importance of History in Understanding the Law-Technology Interface","authors":"Lyria Bennett Moses, N. Gollan","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2697311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2697311","url":null,"abstract":"Despite law being a field known for its backward-looking focus on precedent, legal scholarship addressing issues associated with technology too often only looks forward. It is where legal scholarship focuses closely on a particular technology that the risk of ignoring history and the broader context is greatest. The problem, where it arises, is caused by undue focus on the newness of new technologies, and is not unique to law. There is a problematic tendency to exaggerate the newness of issues arising from technological developments. While some legal issues are truly new in that they arise for the first time as a result of a new technological activity or entity, others are simply new manifestations of issues that have arisen previously in other contexts. Even where particular issues are new in this sense, they are not necessarily limited to the particular technological context in which they first arise. Undue focus on socio-technical circumstances narrows the terms of debate. It is argued that the analysis of legal dilemmas associated with particular technologies requires a broad historical perspective that looks beyond the particular circumstances in which they arise. The paper explores three cases: social media, intellectual property, and reproductive technologies. Each case highlights the need for greater scepticism about which issues are truly new, and demonstrate some of the dangers of “over-hyping” the impact of new technologies on law.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"25 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133384756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age and Experience of High-Tech Entrepreneurs","authors":"H. Lebret","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2416888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2416888","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a recurrent debate about the relative importance of age and experience in high-tech entrepreneurship where the uncertainty not to say non-existence of certain markets and products may render knowledge less critical than in established industries. Are the famous entrepreneurs in their early and mid-twenties exceptions? Some recent studies claim that the average age of entrepreneurs is closer to forty years old. We revisited the topic and analyzed not only the age of founders but also their roles when the company reached success and the links with geography, fields of business, value creation and venture capital.","PeriodicalId":199971,"journal":{"name":"PRN: Technology & Ethics (Sub-Topic)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116622466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}