Artificial Intelligence Ethics (AIE)

Inaugural ‘Artificial Intelligence Ethics’ presentation

Google Washington D.C., USA

Hosted at

The Parsons School of Design at The New School

New York, New York

Proudly sponsored by the European Parliament

European Liberal Forum

Report to the European Parliament presentation at

NEOS Lab, Vienna, Austria, EU

Behavioral Economics Artificial Intelligence Online Ethics

Roundtable on

‘The Potential for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare‘

in cooperation with

Josef Mantl

JMC Communications

Moving Forward: Shaping the Future

Roundtable

January 2020

Vienna, Austria, European Union

‘The Potential for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare’ Roundtable for Josef Mantl Communications Moving Forward: Shaping the Future

Digi-Disruption & New Age Renaissance

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.

The descriptive and empirical research targets at aiding a successful introduction of AI into the workforce and society but also asks critical questions in unraveling the ethical boundaries 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 including robots?  If so, should robotics be designed to resemble human beings (e.g., with emotions and fallibilities) or do we want to strive for creating completely rational AI?  Would feelingless AI be vulnerable or will the computational power and energetic capacities of robots outperform 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 investigates the economic, legal and societal impact of AI from an ethical perspective.  The current legal status of robots being referred to as quasi-human was discussed and this diversified society’s implications for the general populace and democracy.

The power divide imperatives between human and AI robotics were subject to scrutiny in light of historic examples of early forms of ancient Athenian democracy and Roman Law civilization and the French Napoléonic code civil that established a supremacy of a man over his wife and children with attention to possession and property.

Humanness was highlighted as key to future success in the age of AI and automated control.  The research drew 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.  AI was 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.

Press coverage

Social media coverage teaser

 Pre-study on

Athens, Greece, EU

Pre-study on

Palace of Justice, Vienna, Austria, EU

Work in progress running time 2018-22

The project is hosted in the US with research collaborations in Europe Athens, Rome and Paris

Contact: Julia M. Puaschunder

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

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, The Parsons School of Design, The School for Public Engagement & Public Affairs), Prize Fellowship of the Inter-University Consortium of New York, Routledge, University of Vienna, and Vernon Art and Science is gratefully acknowledged.

Output:

Media: The Business Edge Interview, The Future of Financing Freedom

Reports on behalf of the European Parliament European Liberal Forum in cooperation with The New Austria and Liberal Forum:

The legal and international situation of AI, Robotics and Big Data with attention to healthcare

Coverage:

Das Corona-Update: Wie Big Data im Kampf gegen die Pandemie helfen kann

Upcoming Artificial Intelligence Ethics Podcast second edition featuring Guest speakers

Books and monographs

Work-in-progress

Puaschunder, J.M. (under review). Artificial Intelligence Ethics.

Puaschunder, J.M. (under review). The future of medicine: Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, big data and robotics in healthcare.

Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Ethics of Inclusion: The cases of Health, Economics, Education, Digitalization and the Environment in the post-COVID-19 Era. London: Ethics International. 

Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Artificial Intelligence Ethics. European Journal of Economics, Law and Politics.

Puaschunder, J.M. (in press, forthcoming Dec. 2021). Verhaltensökonomie und Verhaltensfinanzökonomie: Ein Vergleich europäischer und nordamerikanischer Modelle. [Behavioral economics and finance: Nudging and winking to make better choices] Springer Gabler.

Completed

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Behavioral economics and finance: Nudging and winking to make better choices. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. 

Articles

Work-in-progress

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). ‘Artificial Diplomacy: A guide for public officials to conduct Artificial Intelligence,’ translated by Run Wang into Chinese.

Puaschunder, J.M. (under review). Artificial Intelligence Ethics.

Puaschunder, J.M. (under review). The future of medicine: Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, big data and robotics in healthcare.

Puaschunder, J.M. (under contract). Ethics of Inclusion: The cases of Health, Economics, Education, Digitalization and the Environment in the post-COVID-19 Era. London: Ethics International.

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Focusing COVID-19 Bailout and Recovery. Ohio Business Law Journal.

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). The Future of Artificial Intelligence in International Healthcare: An Index. In Herta Nagl-Docekal and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (Eds.), Proceedings of the Transatlantic Dialog Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities from both sides of the Atlantic Conference, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, European Union, De Gruyter.

Beerbaum, D., Ikäheimo, S. & Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). A behavioral approach to voluntary change and innovation in external financial reporting: A case study of the restructuring of the Annual Report on Form 20-F and the Financial Report.

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. & Gelter, M. (forthcoming). The law, economics and governance of Generation COVID-19 long-haul. Indiana Health Law Review.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Law & Economics. Proceedings of the 24rd Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference, October 17, 2021.

Golofast, A., Kiyashchenko, L.P. & Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Humanness in the COVID-19 era. Proceedings of the 24rd Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference, October 17, 2021.

Bariffi, F. & Puaschunder, J.M. (2021). Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the age of COVID-19. Proceedings of the 24rd Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference, October 17, 2021.

2021

Consultancy reports

Puaschunder, J.M. (2017). Nudging in the digital big data era. European Journal of Economics, Law and Politics, 4, 4, 18-23.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Stakeholder perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and big data in healthcare: An empirical study. Report on behalf of a European Parliament Agency. New York, New York.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). The legal and international situation of AI, robotics and big data with attention to healthcare. Report on behalf of a European Parliament Agency. New York, New York.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Big data, Artificial Intelligence and healthcare: Developing a legal, policy and ethical framework for using AI, big data, robotics and algorithms in healthcare. Report on behalf of the European Parliament European Liberal Forum in cooperation with The New Austria and Liberal Forum Lab. Vienna, Austria, European Union.

Expert conference calls:

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Big Data, Algorithms and Health Data. The New Austrian and Liberal Forum.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). On Artificial Intelligence Ethics. Austrian Consulate San Francisco.

Invited presentations:

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). On the collective moods of booms and busts: Socio-psychological foundations in external shock communication and social volatility in the COVID-19 economic fallout. 19th Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, October 18-19. [Held online due to COVID-19]

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). Overambition as disability:  Discrimination of excellence. 19th Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, October 18-19. [Held online due to COVID-19]

Puaschunder, J.M. (forthcoming). From homo oeconomicus to homo praeventicus. 19th Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) conference at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, October 18-19. [Held online due to COVID-19]

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). Data fiduciary in order to alleviate principal–agent problems in the Artificial Big Data Age. Keynote address for the Indian Institute of Finance, International Research Conference & Award Summit, Delhi, India, Asia, September 27-29th, 2020. [online due to COVID-19]

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Artificial Intelligence Ethics. Keynote address for the Indian Institute of Finance, International Research Conference & Award Summit, Delhi, India, Asia, September 27-29th, 2020. [online due to COVID-19]

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). ‘Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare,’ European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) Congress. Malmö, Sweden, European Union, October 1-3.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). Bad news are selling? The pandemic of fear and the responsibility of media to build culture of speech to shape our contemporary society. Invited Video Speech on ‘Healthcare in a Post-COVID-19 World.’ Conference Ecowellness on System Change: The Chances and Transformations of Healthcare after the Coronacrisis, July 14-15, 2020.

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.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). ‘Revising Growth Theory in the Artificial Age,’ Ethics, Fairness and Governance in the organizational research. 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). Coex, Seoul, South Korea, June 21-26.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2020). The potential for Artificial Intelligence in healthcare. Josef Mantl Communications, Roundtable, Vienna, Austria, January 9.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Medizin der Zukunft: Big data, algorithms and healthdata. The New Austria and Liberal Forum Lab invited talk. Vienna, Austria, European Union, November 12.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). Revising Growth Theory in the Artificial Age: Putty and Clay Labor, Academy of Behavioral Economics and Finance 12th Annual Meeting, The New School, New York, New York, USA, September 19.

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.

Beerbaum, D. & Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). ‘A behavioral economics approach to sustainability: Digital nudging,‘ World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Singapore, Asia, July 4-5.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). ‘Artificial Intelligence Evolution: On the virtue of killing in the artificial age,’ 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations and 20th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Crete, Greece, European Union, May 24-26.

Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). ‘Dignity and utility of privacy and information sharing in the digital big data age,’ Western Social Science Association Annual Conference, San Diego, California, USA, April 27.

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. (2019). Artificial Intelligence Ethics. International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference.  Athens, Greece, European Union, March 27-30.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) at The Erdman Center at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, August 22-23.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). Nudgital: Critique of a Behavioral Political Economy. European Operational Researchers Conference EURO 2018, Valencia, Spain, European Union, July 8-11.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). Young Behavioral Organizational Research Colloquium, Madrid, Spain, European Union, July 7.

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). ‘Nudgitize me! A behavioral finance approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from heuristics and biases.’ 2018 New York International Academic Conference on Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting. Promoting Global Progress and Excellence in Academia, Hyatt Place Long Island City, New York, New York, United States, April 28.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). ‘Nudgitize me! A behavioral finance approach to minimize losses and maximize profits from heuristics and biases.’ Fourth American Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences, Wagner College, New York, New York, United States, April 14.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). ‘Research for a Sustainable Future.’ Invited Keynote Address, Fourth American Academic Research Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences, Wagner College, New York, New York, United States, April 13.

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.’  9th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) at The Erdman Center at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, April 4.

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.‘ 8th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by the Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS), Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March 26.

Puaschunder, J. M. (2018). ‘The nudging divide in the digital big data era,’ 7^th LAEMOS Colloquium, Organizing for Resilience: Scholarship in Unsettled Times, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America, March 22-24.

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.

Conference attendance:

‘Effective Altruism Global Annual Conference,’ Palace of Fine Arts Innovation Hangar, San Francisco, California, USA, August 11-13, 2017.

‘4^th Annual Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk-Huebner Summer Risk Institute 2017,’ Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA,  July 25-26, 2017.

‘Disrupted: Speech and Democracy in the Digital Age,’ Italian Academy of Columbia University, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, May 1, 2017.

Invited events:

‘Fictitious Capital: Is Finance Appropriating Our Future?,’ French General Consulate New York, New York, USA, June 27, 2017.

Community service:

Scientific Advisory Board, Finance, Risk and Accounting Perspectives (FRAP) Conference on ‘The Fintech Revolution – Sustainability meets Technology in Finance, Risk and Accounting’ of the Oxford Academic Research Network (ACRN), Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland, European Union, September 23-29, 2019.

General Conference Chair, Puaschunder, J.M. (2019). International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities organized by Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (RAIS) at The Erdman Center at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, April 3-4.

Member of the International Program Committee, Associate Editor, Conference Minisymposium on ‘Sustainable Development and Climate Stabilization Modelling’ Chair, 9th Vienna Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, European Union, February 21-23, 2018.

Special issue curator on ‘Artificial Intelligence & Ethics’ of the Scientia Moralitas of the Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Special issue curator on ‘Artificial Intelligence Ethics’ of the European Scientific Journal of the European Scientific Institute.

Session Chair organizer, Artificial Intelligence Ethics. International Atlantic Economic Society Annual Conference.  Athens, Greece, European Union, March 27-30, 2019.

Chair, Risk panel, 16th Finance, Risk and Accountability Perspectives Conference:  Sustainability and Risk: Environmental, Social and Governance Perspectives, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, Great Britain, September 26, 2017.

Editorial Board for the ‘International Robotics & Automation Journal‘

Media coverage:

Sound of Business: The Advantage Austria US Podcast on ‘Innovation, Trade and Diplomacy in the Age of COVID-19‘

Junge Wirtschaft Österreich

Bookforum

Horizont

Leadersnet plus Event

Live-PR

Public Affairs-Broschüre “Blitzlicht Gesundheit” von Sanofi Österreich

Puaschunder on Dignity and Utility of Privacy and Information Sharing in the Digital Big Data Age & The New School, Media Law Prof Blog

The nudging divide in the digital big data era. GovLab at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, New York, New York, USA.

A Behavioral Economics Approach to Digitalisation. The Living Library, GovLab at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, New York, New York, USA

Future ICT: Before the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Scandal: An Interview on Big Nudging

Public Affairs-Broschüre “Blitzlicht Gesundheit” 2/20 von Sanofi Österreich