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| THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CONTAGION Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth and the Social Order? By David Barnhizer and Daniel Barnhizer ISBN: 978-0-9998747-7-6 |
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| Artificial Intelligence: Have we opened a Pandora's Box? |
David Barnhizer is a Professor of Law Emeritus at
Cleveland State University. He was a Senior
Research Fellow at the University of London's
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting
Professor at the Westminster University’s School of
Law. He worked in the International Program of the
Natural Resources Defense Council, was Executive
Director of the Year 2000 Committee, and consulted
with the World Resources Institute, IIED, the UNDP,
the President’s Council on Environmental Quality,
the World Bank, the UN/FAO, World Wildlife Fund/US,
and the Mongolian government. He served as a
director of Performance Capital Management,
consultant for British Petroleum’s Sovonics Solar
Systems, Rapporteur for the Foresight Capability
Workshop of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, and worked on projects with various
federal agencies. He holds a Juris Doctor degree,
summa cum laude, from Ohio State and Masters of
Law degree from Harvard. His books include
Strategies for Sustainable Societies, The Blues of a
Revolution, Effective Strategies for Protecting Human
Rights, The Warrior Lawyer, and Hypocrisy & Myth:
The Hidden Order of the Rule of Law.
Cleveland State University. He was a Senior
Research Fellow at the University of London's
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Visiting
Professor at the Westminster University’s School of
Law. He worked in the International Program of the
Natural Resources Defense Council, was Executive
Director of the Year 2000 Committee, and consulted
with the World Resources Institute, IIED, the UNDP,
the President’s Council on Environmental Quality,
the World Bank, the UN/FAO, World Wildlife Fund/US,
and the Mongolian government. He served as a
director of Performance Capital Management,
consultant for British Petroleum’s Sovonics Solar
Systems, Rapporteur for the Foresight Capability
Workshop of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee, and worked on projects with various
federal agencies. He holds a Juris Doctor degree,
summa cum laude, from Ohio State and Masters of
Law degree from Harvard. His books include
Strategies for Sustainable Societies, The Blues of a
Revolution, Effective Strategies for Protecting Human
Rights, The Warrior Lawyer, and Hypocrisy & Myth:
The Hidden Order of the Rule of Law.
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Daniel Barnhizer is the Bradford Stone
Faculty Scholar at the Michigan State
University School of Law. He graduated
summa cum laude from Miami University and
earned a Juris Doctor degree, with honors,
from Harvard. He works in tax, contract law
and theory, conservation law, comparative
law, and the Rule of Law. He is coauthor of
books in Contracts, Commercial
Transactions, the Rule of Law, and directs
MSU’s Conservation Law Program and its
Institute for Comparative Law &
Jurisprudence at Poland’s University of
Bialystok Faculty of Law. He teaches
regularly in Poland and Lithuania and was a
Lecturer at Jinan University in China. He has
extensive business experience and worked
for the law firms of Hogan & Hartson and
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He was
judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard
L. Nygaard, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd
Circuit, and for the Honorable Robert B.
Krupansky, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th
Circuit.
Faculty Scholar at the Michigan State
University School of Law. He graduated
summa cum laude from Miami University and
earned a Juris Doctor degree, with honors,
from Harvard. He works in tax, contract law
and theory, conservation law, comparative
law, and the Rule of Law. He is coauthor of
books in Contracts, Commercial
Transactions, the Rule of Law, and directs
MSU’s Conservation Law Program and its
Institute for Comparative Law &
Jurisprudence at Poland’s University of
Bialystok Faculty of Law. He teaches
regularly in Poland and Lithuania and was a
Lecturer at Jinan University in China. He has
extensive business experience and worked
for the law firms of Hogan & Hartson and
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. He was
judicial law clerk for the Honorable Richard
L. Nygaard, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd
Circuit, and for the Honorable Robert B.
Krupansky, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th
Circuit.
EXCERPT:
from Chapter 1, Society Under Siege
With the combination of Artificial Intelligence and robotics
(AI/robotics) humans have opened a “Pandora’s Box” and are
incapable of undoing the ills that are being released, with more
coming seemingly by the day. The joining of Artificial Intelligence
and robotic systems that are increasingly capable of acting more
effectively than us in a wide range of work, surveillance, and
information detection and management situations is the primary
driver of a shift that is tearing our fracturing societies further
apart.
Our political leaders have an extremely limited understanding of
what is occurring with Artificial Intelligence and robotics, in terms
of the elimination of massive numbers of jobs, and the potentially
devastating impacts of these developments on the United States,
Western Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Bill Gross, of Janus
Capital, has warned: “No one in 2016 is really addressing the
future as we are likely to experience it.” He explains: “the
current crop of national leaders is hopelessly behind this curve….
Our economy has changed, but voters and their elected
representatives don’t seem to know what’s really wrong.”
Artificial Intelligence applications and robotics are taking over our
culture, altering how we behave and even who we are as
addictions grow and our dependence on AI/robotics systems
expands exponentially. Examples of our dependence are easy to
find. We are often required to pass tests for on-line access to
various websites by answering the question “Are you a robot?”
accompanied by numbers or specially constructed pictures
designed to prove that we are flesh and blood humans to the AI
application controlling the site. In the US we are flooded by
billions of continuous “robocalls” and telephonic and e-mail scams
made to seem as if a human is calling to the point that many do not
answer their landline or discontinue service entirely.
Such things seem trivial or irritating but, when we think a bit more
deeply about what they portend, it demonstrates the penetration
of AI/robotics into much of what we do, our heightened
dependence on such systems, and the fact that it is becoming
increasingly difficult to differentiate human from AI. Penetration,
dependence and the difficulty of differentiation are developing
rapidly. Recent reports on video and virtual reality technology
indicate they are reaching a stage at which false images can be
created that are impossible to distinguish from reality. Franklin
Foer writes in The Atlantic that: “We’ll shortly live in a world where
our eyes routinely deceive us. Put differently, we’re not so far
from the collapse of reality.” Such a collapse of “true reality” is
only possible by the powers created by AI technology.
We are on the verge of quantum leaps in AI/robotics capabilities,
including surveillance, military and weapons technologies,
autonomous self-driving vehicles, massive job elimination, data
management and privacy invasion, medical breakthroughs and
even human augmentation through such things as implants, “add-
ons” and the merging of people with AI and robotics...
REVIEWS
“We see in the rush to develop AI the arrogance of the human
species. Often buried by the exuberance over what AI might do is
the massive dislocation it can cause. David and Daniel Barnhizer
masterfully lead us through the societal challenges AI poses and
offer possible solutions that will enable us to survive the AI
contagion.”
—KENNETH A. GRADY
Member, Advisory Boards, Elevate Services, Inc.,
MDR Lab, and LARI Ltd.
"A sobering look at the far-reaching impact that artificial
intelligence may have on the economy, the workforce, democracy
and all of humanity. The Artificial Intelligence Contagion is a
bellwether for anyone seeking to comprehend the global
disruption coming our way."
—DAVID COOPER, President and Technologist , Massive Designs
“We see in the rush to develop AI the arrogance of the human
species. Often buried by the exuberance over what AI might do is
the massive dislocation it can cause. David and Daniel Barnhizer
masterfully lead us through the societal challenges AI poses and
offer possible solutions that will enable us to survive the AI
contagion.”
—KENNETH A. GRADY
Member, Advisory Boards, Elevate Services, Inc.,
MDR Lab, and LARI Ltd.
"A sobering look at the far-reaching impact that artificial
intelligence may have on the economy, the workforce, democracy
and all of humanity. The Artificial Intelligence Contagion is a
bellwether for anyone seeking to comprehend the global
disruption coming our way."
—DAVID COOPER, President and Technologist , Massive Designs
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