Mind Your Business
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Administrative Decisions
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nayel Al Omran
This study focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on issuing administrative decisions. The digital progress in the field of electronic public administration has had a highly effective impact. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of artificial intelligence on automated administrative decisions, including its positive and negative aspects. The study first clarifies the concept of artificial intelligence and explains the systems used to support or assist administrative decisions. It also highlights the characteristics of artificial intelligence related to administrative decisions. Additionally, the study defines the concept of automated administrative decisions and the controls for automating administrative decisions and explains the implications of applying automation in the field of administrative decisions. Furthermore, the study examines the mechanism for issuing automated administrative decisions, as well as the mechanism for withdrawing and cancelling such decisions. It also looks at the mechanism for enforcing and implementing automated administrative decisions. Finally, the study evaluates the pros and cons of artificial intelligence in the field of administrative decisions.
How the Advent of the Internet in 1993 Can Help Us Predict the Effects of AI: Social, Economic, and Ethical Considerations View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jonathan Leightner
One way to predict the effects of a new type of technology is to evaluate the effects of a relatively recent, similar type of technological advance. This paper argues that the current development and spread of AI is most similar to the advent of the Internet in 1993. The internet and its children (the video game industry, online pornography, social media platforms, etc.) have had both positive and negative social, economic, and ethical effects. This paper explains these effects, predicts how AI would increase, decrease, or just replicate these effects and recommends how governments can promote the positive effects of AI while diminishing the negative effects.
AI Ethics for Organoid Intelligence: Communicating Moral Status through Mindreading Technologies for Organoid Intelligence
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Susan Castro
Organoid Intelligence (OI) is the development of lab-grown mini-brains from induced pluripotent human cells for computational purposes. OI promises to offer self-organizational, growth, and healing capabilities with negligible energy costs and heat production compared to AI in silica. Given the environmentally catastrophic projections for AI in silica, organoid computing and other synthetic biological intelligence (SBI) alternatives might offer a more ethical path. Obviously, however, sentience, consciousness, and a subjective point of view may arise from the organization and growth of brain cells. Calls for emphasizing the critical importance of ethics in OI are thus common and sincere but often empty. Until recently there was little hope of determining which levels and kinds of complexity in OI could give rise to ethical markers of moral status. Now mindreading technologies like mind-to-text brain implants for stroke patients have advanced to the point of detecting specific language intention such as "I'm thirsty" from real-time electroencephalographic data from living human brains. While we are still quite far from being able to use AI to detect the precursors of moral status so as to limit OI research subjects to remain within any given ethical boundary space, the Precautionary Principle and Non-maleficence strongly imply that subjects protection procedures like the US institutional review board (IRB) approval process are needed now. Process development for the protection of genuinely novel research subjects and the requisite legislation for oversight and enforcement, globally, takes time. We're ready.
The Social Construction of Nonsense: Conversational AI and Speech Acts of Deception
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Richy Cook
The research is a re-interpretation of nonsense that posits it as a type of knowledge. Nonsense that is spoken is evident around us and is often taken for knowledge meaning that realities and understanding of the world is based on it, which is a problem. By casting nonsense as socially constructed in the same way as knowledge, and understanding it as an entity that shapes the social world that affects people’s actions and behaviours, nonsense is thus power. The re-interpretation of nonsense considers both technological and sociological perspectives. The research draws on findings from the author’s ethnographic doctoral study of conversational AI in 2021 and recent literature around AI. It provides as provocation, a discussion of conversational AI’s potential for deception. The research found that trust in nonsense that is spoken may provide an effective method to influence, coerce and manipulate people. A ‘blueprint’ for the social construction of nonsense is presented which can act as a methodology to further study and understand speech acts of deception through the social construction of nonsense. Alternatively it could be used to develop deception by AI systems.
