The document discusses various issues related to increasing automation and artificial intelligence technologies, including their impacts on jobs, privacy, security, and ethics. It notes that automation has already eliminated many agricultural jobs and is projected to replace humans in other occupations like driving. Some experts argue that increased automation will lead to most jobs being replaced, while others believe certain jobs will remain safe from innovation. The document also examines privacy and surveillance concerns related to technologies, as well as security issues like malware infections. It discusses concepts like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and challenges around regulating advanced computer systems like robots and artificial intelligence.

1. 7 things we should be talking about

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3. thesis: whenever machines
become more efficient at doing
something than people, people will
be replaced.
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4. »Two hundred years ago, 70% of
American workers lived on the farm.
Today automation has eliminated
all but 1% of their jobs, replacing
them (and their work animals)
with machines.«
Will a robot take your job? [New
Yorker]
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5. among others:
› soldier
› journalist
› farmer
› pharmacist
10 jobs robots already do better
than you [MarketWatch]
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6. Robots replacing factory workers
at faster pace [LA Times]
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Cheaper, better robots will replace human workers in the
world's factories at a faster pace over the next decade,
pushing labor costs down 16%, a report Tuesday said.[…]
Robots will cut labor costs by 33% in South Korea, 25%
in Japan, 24% in Canada and 22% in the United States
and Taiwan.
The cost of owning and operating a robotic spot welder,
for instance, has tumbled from $182,000 in 2005 to
$133,000 last year, and will drop to $103,000 by 2025

7. thesis: whenever machines
become more efficient at doing
something than people, people will
be replaced.
observation: automation is a self-
enhancing process
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8. conclusion: people will be replaced
almost everywhere.
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9. Man vs. Machine: Are Any Jobs
Safe from Innovation? [Spiegel]
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»›There are approximately 4 million truck, taxi, limousine
and bus drivers in the United States, not to mention gas
station attendants and traffic policemen,‹ writes Posner,
the University of Chicago scholar, in his essay on
automation and employment. ›Not all these jobs will be
eliminated overnight,‹ he says, ›but they could go quite
fast.‹«

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»›I don't think we have to worry about autonomous
cars, because that's sort of like a narrow form of AI. It
would be like an elevator. They used to have elevator
operators, and then we developed some simple circuitry
to have elevators just automatically come to the floor
that you're at ... the car is going to be just like that«
So what happens when we get there? Musk said that
the obvious move is to outlaw driving cars. ›It’s too
dangerous. You can't have a person driving a two-ton death
machine.‹«
Elon Musk: cars you can drive will
eventually be outlawed [Verge]

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»Will Googles own Executives buy
their self-driving car?
Never!« [Bruce Sterling]

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»Surveillance as a Business
Model« [Bruce Schneier]
»It shouldn't come as a surprise that big technology
companies are tracking us on the Internet even more
aggressively than before.
If [that doesn’t] sound particularly beneficial to you, it's
because you're not the customer of any of these
companies. You're the product, and you're being improved
for their actual customers: their advertisers.
Surveillance is the business model of the Internet«

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malice »Robots and Privacy« [Ryan Calo]
An extensive literature in communications and
psychology demonstrates that humans are hardwired to
react to social machines as though a person were really
present. […]
People cooperate with sufficiently human-like machines,
are polite to them, decline to sustain eye-contact, decline
to mistreat or roughhouse with them, and respond
positively to their flattery.
There is even a neurological correlation to the reaction;
the same ›mirror‹ neurons fire in the presence of real and
virtual social agents.

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malice malware in personal computers
Report: 48% of 22 million scanned computers infected
with malware [ZDnet]
32% of computers around the world are infected with
viruses and malware [dotTech]
Malware infects 30% of computers in the U.S.
[InfoWorld]

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example: cryptolocker
oct 2013 – mid 2014
malware in personal computers

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»In the world of malware threats, only a few rare
examples can truly be considered groundbreaking and
almost peerless. What we have seen in Regin is just such
a class of malware.
[…]it is one of the main cyberespionage tools used by a
nation state
[…]many components of Regin remain undiscovered and
additional functionality and versions may exist.«
[symantec.com]

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malice Three Laws of Robotics [S. Lem]
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2 A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First
Law.
3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second
Laws.

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Why it is not possible to regulate
robots [Cory Doctorow]
A robot is basically a computer that causes some physical
change in the world. We can and do regulate machines,
from cars to drills to implanted defibrillators. But the
thing that distinguishes a power-drill from a robot-drill is
that the robot-drill has a driver: a computer that operates
it. Regulating that computer in the way that we regulate
other machines – by mandating the characteristics of
their manufacture – will be no more effective at preventing
undesirable robotic outcomes than the copyright mandates
of the past 20 years have been effective at preventing
copyright infringement (that is, not at all).

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thesis: automation is a
vicious circle that we
need to break. goal:
human-compatible
automation.
thesis: technology
seldom plays out as
planned.
thesis: it is impossible
to regulate computers.
this also applies to AI
and robots.

26. »The progress in AI research
makes it timely to focus research
not only on making AI more
capable, but also on maximizing
the societal benefit of AI.«