How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology - dr. Matthijs Pontier, Piratenpartij at Campus party 2016 #CPEU4 #CampusParty
How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology Dr. Matthijs Pontier
2. Why build technology? • Evolutionary progress • Preserve (human) life • To improve our well-being Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
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4. Promoting happiness: Improving autonomy Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
5. Cars that free your time to do other things
6. Drinking Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
7. Road safety ;) Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
8. Road safety Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobilityMatthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
9. Less road rage Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
10. More room for people and plants Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
11. Boosting highway capacity 273% Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
12. Boosting Highway capacity Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
13. Save energy Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
14. Policy implications autonomous cars • Liability: Shared responsibility • Limit building new roads • Limit building new parking places Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party,
15. Governments are lagging behindGovernments are lagging behind
16. Monopolization Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
17. Policy implications tech • Need to stop corporate surveillance • Regulate Big Business vs More freedom for small startups
18. Techno-progressivism • Democratize the way technologies are built • Costs, risks, and benefits of tech are equally shared • Equal access to technologies • Develop tech in a way that promotes happiness
19. Universal Basic Income • Stops poverty and bureaucracy • No need for control-systems that invade our privacy • Level playing field on labour market • Simulates entrepreneurship and creativity Experiments More education More entrepreneurship More useful work Less health problems
21. Emotionally intelligent
Unraveling Multimodality with Large Language Models.pdf
How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology - Campus party 2016
1. How we can make sure
everyone benefits from technology
Dr. Matthijs Pontier
2. Why build technology?
• Evolutionary progress
• Preserve (human) life
• To improve our well-being
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
8. Road safety ;)
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
9. Road safety
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobilityMatthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
10. Less road rage
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
11. More room for people and plants
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
12. Boosting highway capacity 273%
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
18. Policy implications tech
• Need to stop corporate surveillance
• Regulate Big Business vs
More freedom for small startups
19. Techno-progressivism
• Democratize the way technologies are built
• Costs, risks, and benefits of tech are equally shared
• Equal access to technologies
• Develop tech in a way that promotes happiness
20. Universal Basic Income
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Stops poverty and bureaucracy
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No need for control-systems that invade our privacy
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Level playing field on labour market
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Simulates entrepreneurship and creativity
Experiments
More education
More entrepreneurship
More useful work
Less health problems
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016
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24. Smart technology
• If technology thinks for you,
do the programmers tell you what to think?
Matthijs Pontier, 22-03-2016 TU/e, How self-driving cars are going to change the future of mobility
25. Machine Ethics
• Machines are becoming more autonomous
• Machines interact more with people
We should manage that machines do not harm us
or threaten our autonomy
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Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
26. Moral reasoning system
We developed moral reasoning system
that balances between several moral goals
Decisions matched medical-ethical experts
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Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
27. Autonomy
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Results:
Able to simulate judge
decisions about:
•Assertive outreach
•Judicial coercion after self-
binding declaration
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
28. Cars that make ethical decisions
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
29. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
30. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
31. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
32. Why we should have mandatory
Machine Ethics
• AI-Safety
• Make sure the intelligence explosion benefits us
• Democratically decide about ethics technology
33. Why every AI
should be open-soure
• Algorithms and robots will increasingly influence our lives
Who will control the programmers?
• Good ideas are made to be copied:
Creating extra value with no extra costs
34. Book: Machine Medical Ethics
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• How to develop robots with human-like
ethics?
• Need for Open Source
• How to use healthcare tech in a way that
improves well-being
• Changed doctor-patient relation
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Sex-robots
• Etc.
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
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Free sharing of information, art and culture
Evidence-based policy with long-term vision
Stimulate self-determination, but keep rights
Trust civilians vs Distrust ‘power'
Enthusiastic about tech, but alert on risks
Tech to empower people; not to repress
Basic principles Pirate Party
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
36. e-Democracy
• Easily participate in democratic process
• Vote on ideas; not on parties or persons
• Power of Ideas replace the idea of power
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
38. • Everybody can add ideas
• Everybody can add arguments
• Best ideas and arguments automatically
come up
How does it work?
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40. • Don’t vote once every few years, but always adjust vote
• Representation can differ per subject
• Representation is voluntary
• Makes representation personal; implies trust
Representation in an e-Democracy
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42. Crowdsourcing a Constitution
for the EU
Constitution was voted down in referendum
Lisbon-treaty largely same; no referendum
Symbolic for democratic deficit in EU
EU should be by the people, for the people
https://www.peoplesconstitution.eu
Twitter: @CrowdsourceEU
Facebook: Crowdsource Europe
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
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45. More reading and watching
• Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273%
• Autonomous Car Platoons
• How to hack a car
• Zelfrijdende auto's moeten leren wie ze dood willen
rijden
• Vrij van controledrift, bureaucratie en armoede met een
basisinkomen
• Boek: Machine Medical Ethics
• Zorgrobots, maar geen botte zorg
• Crowdsource EU: People's Constitution
• De toekomst van democratie volgens Matthijs Pontier
van de Piratenpartij
Matthijs Pontier, Campus Party, 27-5-2016 How we can make sure everyone benefits from technology
Editor's Notes
AI + Psychology
Developed emotionally intelligent robots and computer agents with human-like ethics
Evolutionary progress Descrption of a process or goal in itself?
Evolutionary progress Diversity
Orwell – 1984: Technology to control us through repression
Huxley – Brave New World:
Use our addiction to stimuli to distract us (and that way control us)
Technology to amuse yourselves to death = Dystopia
Autonomous Cars Will Give You Back > 4 Years Of Your Life
4-day work weeks
Sex, drug and alcohol industry in driverless cars
People are going to have lots of sex in driverless cars
Not only less traffic accidents, but also less driving anxiety and stress
Google cars only get hit from begind
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2947920/Self-driving-cars-given-green-light-UK-Driverless-vehicles-BOOZE-CRUISE-control-drunk-motorists-future.html
Less road rage
Also decreases anxiety and stress
More room for plants and people
Parking lots can become parks
You are a terrible driver compared to a robot: especially reaction time
In treintje veel meer auto’s op de weg: 273% boost in capacity (IEEE Spectrum)
Energy efficient
Net in Nederland getest
More communicating cars More increase of capacity. Finally 273%
Research Columbia University
Sensors Adaptive cruise control, Blind spot sensors, etc.
Morgan Stanley:
Autonomous cars will save US $1.3 trillion annually by lowering fuel consumption
Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems conceptualize how smart cars could be incorporated into the extended power grid
Cars of the future will share, store and produce our energy
We need more tech-savy nerds in politics
who can predict the future and act on it
Not only governments are the problemCorporations succeed in conquering the market without owning any real capital
Because data is the new gold -> Corporate mass-surveillance
Monopoly The power to act like an asshole and get away with it
Buying small startups with innovative ideas (or their patents) and NOT using it
Google: Don’t be evil -> Act like an assholeSmall startups come up with innovation.
While Big Business often stop innovation, buy patents to NOT use them, because they make money ‘in the old way’
Decentralization of power
Cognitive Enhancement in basic insurance?
Lots of people will lose their jobs
Not a problem, as productivity still rises, but solutions need to be found
Poverty: because everybody gets amount above the poverty line
Bureaucracy: Less civil servants.
Negative Income Tax affordable and through tax system
Level Playing Field because you don’t NEED to take a job
Creativity, because worrying about money is killing for creative thinking
Robot (met Silicon Coppelia) vs Mens
Multiple Choice & Emoties
Wat vond dit mannetje nou van jou?
Helped elderly people, for example with remembering to send a postcard and an addressBut: Motivating people = Manipulation
People are easily manipulated..
Millgram experiment: shocking people
Stanford Prison Experiment
If technology gets the power to manipulate us,
We need to manage that they treat us well
Results: Able to match decisions medical ethical experts
Resultaten: Mogelijk om rechtszaken te simuleren over:
-bemoeizorg
-gedwongen opname na zelfbindingsverklaring
Now cars has to perform the trolley dilemma itself
Voorbeeld schoolbus + kinderen?
Would people by a car that kills its driver?
Extra diervriendelijke auto’s?
http://motherboard.vice.com/nl/read/zelfrijdende-autos-moeten-leren-wie-ze-liever-dood-willen-rijden
Intelligence explosion / Singularity
Not realistic? Some of the smartest people on earth say it is:
Nick Bostrom, Elon Musk (Tesla), Stephen Hawking, etc. etc.
Realistic that a robot accidentally destroys us
Take grandma from burning flat?
Diesel scandal
Powerful governments behave badlyGoogle – Don’t be evil
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