Economic revolutions often bring profound social change, affecting everything from jobs to family size. With the digital revolution now in full swing, humanity must recommit to building more ethical machines, or face a future in which our technologies undermine basic values like human rights and civil liberties.
says more ethical technology is essential to prevent the digital revolution from enslaving us.
The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.
shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.
about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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佛罗伦萨—对世界各地的决策者来说,决策的最佳方法是基于证据,不管可以获得的数据多不完美。但如果事实很少或根本不存在,领导人应该怎么办?对于必须为“先进预测算法”的副作用收拾残局的人来说,这是个问题。先进预测算法是机器学习和人工智能的二进制搭建要素。
在学术界,人工智能思维的学者不是“奇点论者”就是“现代主义者”。奇点论者一般认为,人工智能技术固然给人类造成了生存威胁,但仍然利大于弊。但尽管这一群体中包括了很多技术“大拿”,能吸引大量资金,但他们的学术产出尚不能令人信服地证明他们的结论。
另一方面,现代主义者总是关注新技术的公平性、可问责性和透明性。比如,他们关注自动化如何影响劳动力市场。但在这方面,研究也不具有说服力。比如,《麻省理工学院技术评论》(MIT Technology Review)最近比较了考察预期就业损失的19项主要研究的发现,结果表明,对全球“被消灭”岗位数字的预测为180万—20亿不等。
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