Abstract
One way to predict the effects of a new type of technology is to evaluate the effects of a relatively recent, similar type of technological advance. This paper argues that the current development and spread of AI is most similar to the advent of the Internet in 1993. The internet and its children (the video game industry, online pornography, social media platforms, etc.) have had both positive and negative social, economic, and ethical effects. This paper explains these effects, predicts how AI would increase, decrease, or just replicate these effects and recommends how governments can promote the positive effects of AI while diminishing the negative effects.
Presenters
Jonathan LeightnerProfessor of Economics, Hull College of Business, Augusta University, Georgia, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Positive and Negative Effects, Government Policy
