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doi: 10.3233/hsm-1985-5202pmid: N/A
Planning for the continuing and accelerating impact of the computer revolution is becoming more difficult as the field of artificial intelligence makes broader inroads into the automation of intellectual functions. Increasingly, decision making formerly done exclusively by humans will fall within the scope of automation, and the societal changes will be great. However, AI still lacks deep insight into the fundamental nature of human thought and experience, and theoretical breakthroughs of major proportion will be needed before machines will (or ought to) replace humans for many purposes. Surprisingly, many areas of human activity that appear to be purely logical and factual, and even seemingly trivial, will not soon be achievable by computers.
doi: 10.3233/HSM-1985-5202pmid: N/A
Planning for the continuing and accelerating impact of the computer revolution is becoming more difficult as the field of artificial intelligence makes broader inroads into the automation of intellectual functions. Increasingly, decision making formerly done exclusively by humans will fall within the scope of automation, and the societal changes will be great. However, AI still lacks deep insight into the fundamental nature of human thought and experience, and theoretical breakthroughs of major proportion will be needed before machines will (or ought to) replace humans for many purposes. Surprisingly, many areas of human activity that appear to be purely logical and factual, and even seemingly trivial, will not soon be achievable by computers.
doi: 10.3233/hsm-1985-5203pmid: N/A
Despite its potential to support fundamental change, computer use reinforces existing social practices and modes of organization. This paper traces the antecedents and consequences of such reinforcement. Decisions on deployment of computer technology are shown to be powerfully conditioned by a technocultural paradigm forged in the industrial revolution. This paradigm fosters obsessive concern with productivity and growth, a concern that is central to the rhetoric of American renewal. Unless tempered by countervailing values, the obsession will lead to increased disparities of wealth, polarization, socially debilitating unemployment, and virulent economic nationalism.
doi: 10.3233/HSM-1985-5203pmid: N/A
Despite its potential to support fundamental change, computer use reinforces existing social practices and modes of organization. This paper traces the antecedents and consequences of such reinforcement. Decisions on deployment of computer technology are shown to be powerfully conditioned by a technocultural paradigm forged in the industrial revolution. This paradigm fosters obsessive concern with productivity and growth, a concern that is central to the rhetoric of American renewal. Unless tempered by countervailing values, the obsession will lead to increased disparities of wealth, polarization, socially debilitating unemployment, and virulent economic nationalism.
doi: 10.3233/hsm-1985-5204pmid: N/A
We can solve many problems of energy, health, productivity, and environmental quality by improving the technology of remote control. This will produce nuclear safety and security, advances in mining, increases in productivity, economies in transportation, and new industries and markets. By creating ‘mechanical hands’ that are versatile and economical enough, we shape a new world of health, energy and security. It will take 10 to 20 years, and cost about a billion dollars.
doi: 10.3233/HSM-1985-5204pmid: N/A
We can solve many problems of energy, health, productivity, and environmental quality by improving the technology of remote control. This will produce nuclear safety and security, advances in mining, increases in productivity, economies in transportation, and new industries and markets. By creating ‘mechanical hands’ that are versatile and economical enough, we shape a new world of health, energy and security. It will take 10 to 20 years, and cost about a billion dollars.
doi: 10.3233/HSM-1985-5205pmid: N/A
Artificial intelligence (AI) will have many profound societal effects. It promises potential benefits (and may also pose risks) in education, defense, business, law, and science. In this paper we explore how AI is likely to affect employment and the distribution of income. We argue that AI will indeed reduce drastically the need for human toil. We also note that some people fear the automation of work by machines and the resulting unemployment. Yet, since the majority of us would rather use our time for activities other than our present jobs, we ought to greet the work-eliminating consequences of AI enthusiastically. The paper discusses two reasons, one economic and one psychological, for this paradoxical apprehension. We conclude with a discussion of problems of moving toward the kind of economy that will be enabled by developments in AI.
doi: 10.3233/hsm-1985-5205pmid: N/A
Artificial intelligence (AI) will have many profound societal effects. It promises potential benefits (and may also pose risks) in education, defense, business, law, and science. In this paper we explore how AI is likely to affect employment and the distribution of income. We argue that AI will indeed reduce drastically the need for human toil. We also note that some people fear the automation of work by machines and the resulting unemployment. Yet, since the majority of us would rather use our time for activities other than our present jobs, we ought to greet the work-eliminating consequences of AI enthusiastically. The paper discusses two reasons, one economic and one psychological, for this paradoxical apprehension. We conclude with a discussion of problems of moving toward the kind of economy that will be enabled by developments in AI.
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