Papers of the AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium

The papers of the AAAI 2019 Spring Symposium „Interpretable AI for Well-Being: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Social Embeddedness symposium“ were published in October 2019. The participants had met at Stanford University at the end of March 2019 to present and discuss their findings. Session 5 („Social Embeddedness“) includes the following publications: „Are Robot Tax, Basic Income or Basic Property Solutions to the Social Problems of Automation?“ (Oliver Bendel), „Context-based Network Analysis of Structured Knowledge for Data Utilization“ (Teruaki Hayashi, Yukio Ohsawa), „Extended Mind, Embedded AI, and ‚the Barrier of Meaning'“ (Sadeq Rahimi), „Concept of Future Prototyping Methodology to Enhance Value Creation within Future Contexts“ (Miwa Nishinaka, Yusuke Kishita, Hisashi Masuda, Kunio Shirahada), and „Maintaining Knowledge Distribution System’s Sustainability Using Common Value Auctions“ (Anas Al-Tirawi, Robert G. Reynolds). The papers can be downloaded via ceur-ws.org/Vol-2448/.

Fig.: At Stanford University

About Basic Income and Basic Property

Automation is advancing relentlessly. Already decades ago, digitization was its partner. In the industry, innovative robots, for example co-robots, are used. Service robots begin to spread in various areas. Systems of artificial intelligence perform tasks of all sorts, even creative activities. The studies on the development of the labor market reach different results. In any case, it can be said that certain jobs will disappear and many people will have to do without their familiar work. It can also be assumed that in many areas less human work has to be performed on behalf (e.g., for customers and employers). As possible solutions to economic and social problems, an unconditional basic income and a robot tax are suggested. The paper „Are Robot Tax, Basic Income or Basic Property Solutions to the Social Problems of Automation?“ by Oliver Bendel presents, discusses and criticizes these approaches in the context of automation and digitization. Moreover, it develops a relatively unknown proposal, unconditional basic property, and presents its potentials as well as its risks. The ethicist from Zurich will share his results between 25 and 27 March 2019 at the AAAI Spring Symposia (Stanford University).

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