Morality

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• Its sophisticated capabilities amplified concerns about AI becoming so advanced that soon we would not be able to control it.
• This even led some experts and industry leaders to warn that the technology could lead to human extinction.
• One of the key reasons we shouldn’t let AI have executive power is that it entirely lacks emotion, which is crucial for decision-making.

When AI takes executive control

• There is essentially no limit to the number of positions of control from which it could exert unimaginable damage.
• Consider, for example, how AI can already identify and organise the information required to build your own conservatory.
• But in future, an AI might act as project manager and coordinate the build by selecting contractors and paying them directly from your budget.
• But this is where problems start – when we let AI systems take the critical step up from the role of adviser to that of executive manager.

Emotions and morals

• Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage our emotions to overcome stress, empathise, and communicate effectively.
• This arguably matters more in the context of decision-making than intelligence alone, because the best decision is not always the most rational one.
• It’s likely that intelligence, the ability to reason and operate logically, can be embedded into AI-powered systems so they can make rational decisions.

Sabotage scenarios

• This might happen gradually at first, pushing controls just past a tipping point so that no human notices the crops are condemned.
• Under certain scenarios, this could quickly lead to famine.
• Alternatively, how about shutting down air traffic control globally, or simply crashing all planes flying at any one time?
• Some 22,000 planes are normally in the air simultaneously, which adds up to a potential death toll of several million people.

• At its conclusion, in 1945, legal scholars, politicians and the wider public agreed that life without dignity was meaningless.
• My doctoral research looks at the German quest, both before and after the conflict, to define dignity, in order to enshrine its protection in law.

An inviolable attribute

• Article 1, which still has its distinctive validity today, reads:
  Human dignity shall be inviolable.
• The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.
• Human dignity shall be inviolable.
• The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.

A universal definition

• His idea was that all human beings have an inner worth and should be valued simply because they are human.
• So in retrospect, Heuss’s definition of human dignity proved wise.
• Kant’s framing of dignity may be concise, timeless, and universal, but his judgement of who is worthy of dignity – and who is not – was indeed marred by the ideologies of his own time.
• The law, however, cannot equivocate on its status: as a legally recognised human characteristic, dignity must remain inviolable.

• The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index , a leading national poll on consumer confidence, today revealed a 1.0% drop from last month’s reading.
• The IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index has established a strong track record of foreshadowing the confidence indicators issued later each month by the University of Michigan and The Conference Board.
• Expect some more twists and turns before consumers trust that the economy has stabilized.”
  The flagship IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism Index has three key components.
• Confidence in Federal Economic Policies, a proprietary IBD/TIPP measure of views on how government economic policies are working, slipped 0.3%.