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say there are indeed much better ways of using digital technologies than what we
saw above.
Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by the European Commission funded
project “Humane AI Network” (grant #952026). The support is gratefully acknowledged.
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saw above.
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project “Humane AI Network” (grant #952026). The support is gratefully acknowledged.
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New Frontier of Power (PublicAffairs).
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5. D. Kahneman (2013) Thinking Fast and Slow (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux).
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How We Think (Penguin, 2012).
7. E. Bernays, Propaganda (Ig, 2004).
8. R.H. Thaler and C.R. Sunstein, Nudge (Yale University Press, 2008).
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12. D.H. Meadows, Limits to Growth (Signet, 1972).
13. D.H. Meadows, J. Randers, and D.L. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Chelsea
Green, 2004).
14. R. Arkin (2017) Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots (Chapman and Hall/CRC).
15. R. Sparrow, Can Machines Be People? Reflections on the Turing Triage Test, https://resear
chmgt.monash.edu/ws/portalfiles/portal/252781337/2643143_oa.pdf.
16. F. Hamburg (2005) Een Computermodel Voor Het Ondersteunen van Euthanasiebeslissingen
(Maklu) https://books.google.de/books?id=eXqX0Ls4wGQC.
17. J. Nagler, J. van den Hoven, and D. Helbing (August 21, 2017) An Extension of Asimov‘s
Robotic Laws, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319205931, published in D. Helbing
(ed.) Towards Digital Enlightenment (Springer, 2019).
18. B. Dewitt, B. Fischhoff, and N.-E. Sahlin, ‚Moral machine’ experiment is no basis for
policymaking, Nature 567, 31 (2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00766-x.
19. Y.E. Bigman and K. Gray, Life and death decisions of autonomous vehicles, Nature 579, E1–E2
(2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1987-4.
20. R. Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near (Penguin, 2007).
21. W. Indick (2015) The Digital God: How Technology Will Reshape Spirituality (McFarland).
22. R.M. Geraci (2010) Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence,
and Virtual Reality (Oxford University Press).
