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P06a


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AI-assisted technology and the market: critical impacts on human societies 
Convenors:
Arnold Groh (Technical University of Berlin)
Louise Sundararajan
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Chairs:
Arnold Groh (Technical University of Berlin)
Louise Sundararajan
Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Thursday 9 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This interdisciplinary panel investigates the degradation of human values under the joint forces of market and technology. The presentations are going to be discussed against the backdrop of transhumanism, in which machine intelligence has become the defining measure of humanity and its future.

Long Abstract:

The Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu saw it coming: "whoever uses machines does all his work like a machine. (...) It is not that I do not know of such things; I am ashamed to use them." Gone are the days when the use of the machine was a matter of personal choice. As machines, ranging from smart phones to personal computers, become a necessity in our daily lives, Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics, predicted that our relationship to the machine "concerns some of the most important moral traps into which the present generation of human beings is likely to fall." One of the consequences of this trapped relationship with the machine is value degradation.

This international and interdisciplinary panel will investigate the degradation of human values under the joint forces of market and technology. The first paper examines how in its defense against mortality, AI-assisted technology degrades the carbon-based humanity; the second paper examines the commodification of religion and spirituality in psychology as the latter falls prey to neoliberalism; the third and fourth papers investigate the disruptive impact of technology on Indigenous peoples in general, and on a hunter-gatherer tribe (Temiars) in Malaysia, respectively. The fifth paper examines alienation and value degradation among social workers in China. The discussant will review the presentations against the backdrop of transhumanism, which is a glaring example of how machine intelligence has become the defining measure of humanity and its future.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 9 June, 2022, -
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