Tag: free market

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post

Author
Richard W. Stevens
Date
July 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Economics

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, capitalism, Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), free market, Friedrich Hayek, guaranteed universal income, I Pencil, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)), Leonard Read, Ryan Abbott, Socialism, Steven Cherry, Tax policy, The Reasonable Robot (book), The Use of Knowledge in Society (book), Universal Basic Income}

Should Robots Pay Taxes?

_{Taxing artificial intelligence is the latest proposal to expand centralized control of human life} _{Richard W. Stevens

July 21, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Economics}

In June 2021, we started considering the provocatively titled podcast transcript, “Can a Robot Be Arrested? Hold a Patent? Pay Income Taxes?”, posted on the IEEE Spectrum site. Steven Cherry interviewed Ryan Abbott, physician, lawyer, and professor, about these topics and referencing his 2019 book, The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law. We’ve discussed whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems could be charged with crimes or can hold a patent. Whether “robots should pay taxes” turns out to be the scariest question yet. Touching upon the subject only lightly in the podcast, Abbott details the problem of taxing AI in Reasonable Robot, following this thought process: Automation using AI threatens to increase human unemployment. Current U.S. tax law encourages automation through favorable treatment Read More ›

Market with hundreds of stalls from above

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post

Author
Winston Ewert
Date
January 18, 2019

Categorized
Technocracy, Work

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Central Planning, Featured, free market, Machine Learning, Universal Basic Income}

Will the Free Market Help or Hurt Us in an AI-Empowered World?

_{We may need new institutions, such as insurance against job obsolescence} _{Winston Ewert

January 18, 2019

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Technocracy, Work}

If humans are free to experiment with new institutions, I believe we will find an excellent solution. However, there is a great danger that those who benefit from the status quo will use their influence to prevent the adoption of new institutions. Read More ›

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podcast

Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
October 5, 2018

Tagged
capitalism, class, democracy, economics, free market, industry, Politics, society, wages}

Does Technology Favor Tyranny?

_{Part One: Deconstructing Yuval Harari’s Silly Forecast of AI’s Future Impact} _{Robert J. Marks

October 5, 2018

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Will infotech and biotech erode human agency, subvert human desires, and render free-market economics obsolete? At first glance, there looks to be a wide gap between the future of AI and the destruction of democracy. Some futurists claim to have jumped that chasm. In a cheery little column published by the Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari posits AI will ultimately destroy Read More ›