Wadhwa urges readers to engage in the ethical debates of our time that technology is surfacing, and stresses that technology is evolving too rapidly to leave policy decisions up to political leaders alone. “With both AI and robotics, we must design all systems with this key consideration in mind, even if it reduces the capabilities and emergent properties of those systems and robots.” In the case of artificial intelligence, for example, Wadhwa suggests all AI systems should be built with a kill switch, allowing humans to shut them down, no matter how advanced.
In the book, Wadhwa runs technologies such as artificial intelligence, CRISPR gene editing, and robotics through this framework. Knowing the ethical nuances aren’t always black and white, Wadhwa believes these questions are a helpful framework for understanding and evaluating technology. Does the technology more strongly promote autonomy or dependence?.Does the technology have the potential to benefit everyone equally?.Each question relates back to the themes of equality, risk, and autonomy. Wadhwa uses three questions as an ethical lens for evaluating new technologies. Of course, it’s a little more complicated than that.
While it’s tempting to believe technology is beyond influence, however, Wadhwa emphasizes people ultimately hold the power to determine our future. In the book, Wadhwa and Salkever explore to what extent we can control technological progress, which at times, can seem like force of nature.
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This is one of the big questions Vivek Wadhwa examines in his new book, co-authored with Alex Salkever, The Driver in the Driverless Car: How Our Technology Choices Will Create the Future. Is humanity headed toward a Star Trek-like utopia or a Mad Max-inspired dystopia?
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