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14 Summary: What’s Wrong with AI?
To summarize the above even more briefly, the most important rule is to increase
positive externalities, reduce negative ones, and ensure fair compensation. Some
would just say “Love nature and your neighbor as yourself!”
This fundamental principle takes care of the implications of our interactions, and
is probably enough to create a better world that will benefit everyone! Mastering our
future isn’t that complicated, after all!
Acknowledgements This work was partially funded by the European Community’s H2020
Program under the funding scheme “FETFLAG-01-2018 (CSA)”, grant agreement #820437,
“Toward AI Systems that Augment and Empower Humans by Understanding us, our Society and
the World Around Us—Humane AI” (https://www.humane-ai.eu).
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2. D.H. Meadows, Limits to Growth (Signet, 1972).
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4. R.M. Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual
Reality (Oxford University Press, 2012).
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2015).
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Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (Wiley, 2018).
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(2011) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01403-6.
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D. Helbing (ed.) Towards Digital Enlightenment (Springer, 2018) https://link.springer.com/
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14 Summary: What’s Wrong with AI?
To summarize the above even more briefly, the most important rule is to increase
positive externalities, reduce negative ones, and ensure fair compensation. Some
would just say “Love nature and your neighbor as yourself!”
This fundamental principle takes care of the implications of our interactions, and
is probably enough to create a better world that will benefit everyone! Mastering our
future isn’t that complicated, after all!
Acknowledgements This work was partially funded by the European Community’s H2020
Program under the funding scheme “FETFLAG-01-2018 (CSA)”, grant agreement #820437,
“Toward AI Systems that Augment and Empower Humans by Understanding us, our Society and
the World Around Us—Humane AI” (https://www.humane-ai.eu).
References
1. J. Barrat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era (Griffin,
2015).
2. D.H. Meadows, Limits to Growth (Signet, 1972).
3. E. Brynjolfsson and A. McAfee, The Second Machine Age (W.W. Norton, 2016).
4. R.M. Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual
Reality (Oxford University Press, 2012).
5. M.P. Mueller, Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information
theory, https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01826.
6. Phil Ball, Reality? It’s What You Make It, New Scientist (November 11, 2017), pp. 29–32.
7. N. Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – But Some Don’t (Penguin,
2015).
8. T. Vigen, Spurious Correlations (Hachette Books, 2015).
9. F. Pasquale, The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press, 2016).
10. C. Morin and P. Renvoise, The Persuasion Code: How Neuromarketing Can Help You Persuade
Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (Wiley, 2018).
11. F. Schirrmacher (ed.) Technologischer Totalitarismus (Suhrkamp, 2015).
12. D. Helbing and S. Balietti, How to Create an Innovation Accelerator, EPJ ST 195, 101–136
(2011) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjst/e2011-01403-6.
13. J. Nagler, J. van den Hoven, and D. Helbing, An Extension of Asimov’s Robotics Laws, in:
D. Helbing (ed.) Towards Digital Enlightenment (Springer, 2018) https://link.springer.com/
chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-90869-4_5, also available as SSRN preprint (February 7, 2018)
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3110582.
14. E. Awad et al. The Moral Machine experiment, Nature 563, 59–64 (2018) https://www.nature.
com/articles/s41586-018-0637-6.
15. R. Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
(City Lights Publishers, 2015).
16. D.H. Meadows, J. Randers, and D.L. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Chelsea
Green Publishing, 2004).
17. F. Hamburg, Een Computermodel voor het Ondersteunen van Euthanasiebeslissingen
(Maklu, 2005) https://books.google.ch/books/about/Een_computermodel_voor_het_onders
teunen.html?id=eXqX0Ls4wGQC.
18. S. Kühl, The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
(Oxford University Press, 1994).
19. A. King and B. Schneider, The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of the
Club of Rome, https://ia800202.us.archive.org/33/items/TheFirstGlobalRevolution/TheFirstG
lobalRevolution.pdf.