The project studies Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our contemporary society. What is the impact of robots, algorithms, blockchain and AI entering the workforce and our daily lives on the global economy and human society?
On innovation’s razor’s edge of 24/7 working robots that can live eternally and have no feelings, ethical questions arise whether robots, algorithms and AI should be granted citizenship and legally be considered as quasi-human beings — a technocratic and legal trend that has already started.
While the research is planned to be descriptive – afar from normative – and targeted to aid a successful introduction of AI into the workforce and society, the project will ask critical questions and unravel the ethical boundary conditions of our future artificial world.
How to balance robots living forever in light of overpopulation and finite resources? How do we switch quasi-human intelligence off when misbehaving or if AI life has become a burden that cannot be borne by society?
In light of robots already having gained citizenship and being attributed as quasi-human, should AI and robots be granted full citizen rights – such as voting rights? Should we reap the economic benefits of AI and have a democracy with a diversified populace of human enslaving robots?
Is feelingless AI vulnerable and prone to become enslaved or will the computational power and energetic capacities of robots outperform and enslave humankind?
Given the humane fallibility and biases, would a rational AI agent make better democratic choices? Should AI therefore be used for governance as for being insusceptible to bribery and fraud, or does the installment of algorithms in leadership positions imbue dangers to humankind?
How should we organize the human-led evolution of AI production and the blend of human-AI enhanced workforce? And what is it that makes human humane in the artificial age?
The project will investigate the economic, legal and societal impact of AI from an ethical perspective. The current legal status of robots being referred to as quasi-human will be discussed as for implications to society and democracy.
The power divide imperatives between human and AI robotics will become subject to scrutiny in light of historic examples of early forms of ancient Athenian democracy and Roman Law civilization that legally allowed for slavery but also with an eye on French Napoleonic code civil that established a supremacy of a man over his wife and children with attention to possession and property.
Humanness will be highlighted as key to future success in the age of AI and automated control. The proposed research will thereby draw from behavioral human decision making insights and evolutionary economics in order to outline what makes human humane and how human decision making is unique to set us apart from AI rationality. AI will be argued to bevalue humanness and improve the value of human-imbued unique features.
The findings promise to hold novel insights on future success factors for human resource management but also invaluable contributions for the successful introduction of AI and digital humanities in modern democracies and societies. Innovation’s razor’s edge is thereby aimed to be ennobled by ethical imperatives as old as humankind civilization.
The project will be hosted in the US with research collaborations in Europe Athens, Rome and Paris
Contact: Julia M. Puaschunder
US: T 001 212 229 5700
F 001 212 229 5724
EU: M 0043-69917250979
Julia.Puaschunder@newschool.edu
Julia.Puaschunder@columbia.edu
Roll-out of project
Washington D.C.
Presentation at Austrian Embassy in the United States, Washington D.C., December 2018
Presentation at U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington D.C., April 2019
Conference at
Erdman Center of Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Collaboration with Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
‘Effective Altruism Global 2017’
Palace of Fine Arts, Innovation Hangar
San Francisco, California, USA
Financial and in-kind support of the Association for the Eugene Lang Liberal Arts College of The New School, European Parliament Research Division, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Georgia State University, Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education, Janeway Center Fellowship, Monmouth University, The New School for Social Research New York (Dean’s List, Fee Board Scholarship, President’s Scholarship), Prize Fellowship of the Inter-University Consortium of New York, University of Vienna, and Vernon Art and Science is gratefully acknowledged.
Gelter, M. & Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). COVID-19 and comparative corporate governance. Journal of Comparative Corporate Law.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Overambition as disability: Discrimination of excellence. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Access to Affordable Preventive Medicine: Common Wealth in Common Health. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M., Gelter, M. & Mörtl, D. (2021). Inequality in COVID-19: Legal, Economic, Trade and Governance Aspects. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Economic growth in times of pandemics. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 1-9, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Value at COVID-19: Digitalized healthcare, luxury consumption, and global education. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 43-51, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). The future of the city after COVID-19: Digitalization, preventism and environmentalism. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 125-129, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. & Beerbaum, D. (2020). Healthcare inequality in the digital 21st century: The case for a mandate for equal access to quality medicine for all. The Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States, September 28-29.
Puaschunder, J.M., Gelter, M. & Sharma, M. (2020). Alleviating an unequal COVID-19 world: Globally digital and productively healthy. The Unequal World Conference: On Human Development, United Nations, New York, New York, United States, September 28-29.
Mantl, J., Puaschunder, J.M. & Plank, B. (2020). Communication in the Digital Century. The Unequal World Conference: On Human Development, United Nations, New York, New York, United States, September 28-29.
Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Eyes wide shut: The role of Information for real competition. Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations, IGI Publishing.
Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Time≠Time≠Time. Handbook of Research on Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Modern Marketplace.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Data fiduciary in order to alleviate principal-agent problems in the artificial big data age.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Revising Growth Theory in the Artificial Age: Putty and Clay Labor. Archives in Business Research.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2017). The nudging divide in the digital big data era. International Journal of Research in Business, Economics and Management, 4, 11-12, 49-53.
Output:
Publications:
Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Overambition as disability: Discrimination of excellence. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Access to Affordable Preventive Medicine: Common Wealth in Common Health. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M., Gelter, M. & Mörtl, D. (2021). Inequality in COVID-19: Legal, Economic, Trade and Governance Aspects. Proceedings of the 2nd Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M. & Beerbaum, D. (2020). Healthcare inequality in the digital 21st century: The case for a mandate for equal access to quality medicine for all. Proceedings of the Unequal World Conference of the United Nations, United Nations New York, New York, United States.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Economic growth in times of pandemics. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 1-9, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Value at COVID-19: Digitalized healthcare, luxury consumption, and global education. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 43-51, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). The future of the city after COVID-19: Digitalization, preventism and environmentalism. Proceedings of the ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, pp. 125-129, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). ‘Artificial Diplomacy: A guide for public officials to conduct Artificial Intelligence,’ translated by Run Wang into Chinese.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: Integrating Technology, Productivity, Anti-Corruption and Healthcare Interaction Around the World with Three Indices. Journal of Applied Research in the Digital Economy.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Making Marvels: A Reading: Review of Making Marvels exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption. Taylor & Francis.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Data fiduciary in order to alleviate principal-agent problems in the artificial big data age. In K. Balachandran (Ed.), Economic Information to Facilitate Decision Making, World Scientific.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Towards a Utility Theory of Privacy and Information Sharing and the Introduction of Hyper-Hyperbolic Discounting in the Digital Big Data Age. In E. Idemudia (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Social and Organizational Dynamics in the Digital Era, IGI Publishing.
Authorized reprint: International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications (IJSITA)
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Artificial intelligence evolution: On the Virtue of Killing in the Artificial Age. Journal of Sociology.
Beerbaum, D. & Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). A behavioral economics approach to digitalization: The case of a principles-based taxonomy. In J.M. Puaschunder (Ed.), Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World, pp. 107-122, Hershey, PA: Idea Group.
Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). Nachhaltigkeit und Investment. In C.T. Schmitt & E. Bamberg, Psychologie und Nachhaltigkeit: Konzeptionelle Grundlagen, Anwendungsbeispiele und Zukunftsperspektiven, pp. 127-134. Springer.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). What is the right dose of capitalism regarding fertility? Recommendations how to use capitalism for population control and how to avert the falling rate of fertility. Journal of Applied Business and Economics.
Puaschunder, J. M. (under contract). Eyes wide shut: The role of Information for real competition. Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance in Modern Organizations, IGI Publishing.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). On Artificial Intelligence’s razor’s edge: On the future of democracy and society in the artificial age,’ Journal of Economics and Business.
Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Time≠Time≠Time. Handbook of Research on Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the Modern Marketplace.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). The nudging divide in the digital big data era. International Robotics & Automation Journal.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Towards a utility theory of privacy and information sharing and the introduction of hyper-hyperbolic discounting in the digital big data age. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology. Research Association of Interdisciplinary Studies Collective Volume on Economics.
Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Artificial Intelligence Evolution: On the virtue of killing in the artificial age. In: J. Malpass (Ed.), Behavioral Organizational Research, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). COVID-19 crisis economics. 20th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, pp. 140-147, December 6-7, 2020.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Heterodox Economic Cycles Theories. 20th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, pp. 108-118, December 6-7, 2020.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2017). The Austrian way: Sozialpartnerschaft as means to curb the falling rate of profit. Oxford Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives, 6, 3, 11-27.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Economic growth in times of pandemics. ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Value at COVID-19: Digitalized healthcare, luxury consumption, and global education. ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). The future of the city after COVID-19: Digitalization, preventism and environmentalism. ConScienS conference on Science & Society: Pandemics and their impact on society, September 6-7.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Artificial Society, Economy and Democracy: Contemporary legal, economic and societal trends in the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and big data insights. Harvard University, Cabot Division Room, Harvard Chemistry, Mallinckrodt Building, Cambridge, USA, March 4.
Invited participant, Workshop on ‘Science, Technology and Economic Policy,’ National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, invited by the Harvard Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at The Keck Center for the National Academies, Washington DC, USA, May 29, 2019.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Artificial Intelligence Ethics. Diplomatic Academy of Austria, Vienna, Austria, European Union, April 23.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Artificial intelligence ethics. Big Data, Algorithms, and Health Data, The New Austria and Liberal Forum Science Lab, Vienna, Austria, European Union, June 24.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Dignity and utility of privacy and information sharing in the digital big data age. The Society of Government Economists 2019 Annual Conference, Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC, USA, April 5.
Conference presentations:
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). ‘Dignity and utility of privacy and information sharing in the digital big data age,’ 17th Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives Conference, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, European Union, September 23-35.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). ‘On Artificial Intelligence’s Razor’s Edge: On the future of democracy and society in the artificial age,’ 17th Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives Conference, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, European Union, September 23-35.
Invited participant, Workshop on ‘Science, Technology and Economic Policy,’ National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, invited by the Harvard Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at The Keck Center for the National Academies, Washington DC, USA, May 29, 2019.
Invited Expert Technology and Internet Governance Workshop, European Horizons Conference 2019, Yale University, Yale, New Haven, USA, April 6.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Dignity and utility of privacy and information sharing in the digital big data age. The Society of Government Economists 2019 Annual Conference, Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, DC, USA, April 5.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2018). ‘Nudgitize me! A behavioral finance approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from heuristics and biases.’ 2018 International Council for Small Business World Congress, Reshaping the world through innovative SMEs, Taipei, Taiwan, Asia, June 26-29.
Puaschunder, J.M. (2018). ‘Towards a utility theory of privacy and information sharing and the introduction of hyper-hyperbolic discounting in the digital big data age,’ 2018 Western Economic Association International (WEAI) Annual Conference, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Canada, June 26-30.
Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). ‘Nudgital: Critique of Behavioral Political Economy,‘ Economics and Behavior Panel, Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Boston Sheraton, Boston, MA, United States, March 4.
Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). ‘Nudging.’ Reformatting the world: An interdisciplinary conference on technology and the humanities. Vanier College, York University, Toronto, Canada, February 23.
Puaschunder, J. M. (2017). Nudgitize me! A behavioral finance approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from heuristics and biases. Academy of Behavioral Finance & Economics, 2017 Annual Meeting,Los Angeles, California, USA, October 18-20, 2017.
Puaschunder, J. M. (2017). Nudgital: Critique of Behavioral Political Economy. Behavioral Economics, The New School for Social Research, March 30.
