PDPU - Global Citizenship Course

1. IoT, AI and Us
Nigam Dave

2. • From The Terminator to Transcendence,
Hollywood sci-fi films have taught us not to
trust robots.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3143275/Artificial-intelligence-real-threat-robots-wipe-humanity-ACCIDENT-
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3. • Losing jobs to India?
• Losing jobs to China?
• Building wall with Mexico?

4. Why Machines?
• Machines and robots that don't go on strikes
• Don't demand four day week
• Don't count public holidays
• Don't enter into office politics
• Production would assume new scale. Faster,
smarter and more reliable.

5. Did we complain?

6. Would you not want to?

7. This is where we are heading!

9. • “What made us sapiens will make us gods”
• ‘Rise of the useless classes’
• “But in the original story of the boy who cried
wolf, in the end, the wolf actually comes, and I
think that is true this time.”
Yuval Noah Harari,

10. • Humans have two abilities – Physical and
cognitive.
• Industrial Revolution did not impact as it took
away only the physical work but automated
world of AI would take away both.

11. • A simple instruction to an AGI to ‘prevent human
suffering’ could be interpreted by a super computer
as ‘kill all humans’ or that ‘keep humans safe’ could
lead to machines locking people up.‘There is a risk of
this kind of pernicious behaviour by an AI,' he said,
adding that human language is subtle and can be
easily misinterpreted. 'You can give AI controls, and it
will be under the controls it was given. But these
may not be the controls that were meant.’ – Dr.
Armstrong,
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13. Questions to consider
• 1. What would happen to the humans who lose
jobs?
• 2. What would be the ramifications on the
Economy? Would increased productivity and
stagnant income create divide?
• 3. Where would the buying capacity come if
everyone is losing the income source?
• 4. Would extensive use of the machines make us
dumb?
• 5. What would happen if human beings have
surplus time? Would they find a leisure problem?

14. What may happen?
• Some people believe that while robot class
would eat up almost all existing jobs, new
sectors would open out of necessity for the
humans.
• Some believe machines would take away even
the new jobs that they would create.

15. Reasons to be hopeful: Pew Report
• Advances in technology may displace certain types of
work, but historically they have been a net creator of
jobs.
• We will adapt to these changes by inventing entirely
new types of work, and by taking advantage of
uniquely human capabilities.
• Technology will free us from day-to-day drudgery, and
allow us to define our relationship with “work” in a
more positive and socially beneficial way.
• Ultimately, we as a society control our own destiny
through the choices we make

16. Reasons to be concerned: Pew Report
• Impacts from automation have thus far impacted
mostly blue-collar employment; the coming wave of
innovation threatens to upend white-collar work as
well.
• Certain highly-skilled workers will succeed wildly in this
new environment—but far more may be displaced into
lower paying service industry jobs at best, or
permanent unemployment at worst.
• Our educational system is not adequately preparing us
for work of the future, and our political and economic
institutions are poorly equipped to handle these hard
choices.

17. • A country can not afford to let people remain
unemployed as unemployed class would not
have a buying capacity.
• AI and automation can't survive without
human interest and affordability.

18. Basic Universal Income

19. Basic Universal Income

20. One possibility

21. One possibility

22. Services that may be in demand
• Creative thinking
• Human Rights
• Work that requires empathy
• Problem Solving
• Hand made objects

23. Back to Nature Movement:
Rehumanizing
• Organic Food
• Handicraft
• Hand Painted clothes
• Hand spun clothes