How we can use technology to increase our freedom and outsmart governments and companies who want the opposite Dr. Matthijs Pontier
Jan 22, 2018
How we can use technology to increase our freedomand outsmart governments and companies who want the opposite
Dr. Matthijs Pontier
Contents:
• Lessons from tech dystopia’s
• Self-driving cars as an example
• Platform capitalism and the harms of monopolization of tech
• Privacy protection / Safe communication
• Machine ethics
• Darkweb marketplaces
• Universal Basic Income
• E-Democracy
Contents
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Free sharing of information, art and culture
Evidence-based policy with long-term vision
Stimulate self-determination, but keep rights
Trust civilians vs Distrust ‘power'
Enthusiastic about tech, but alert on risks
Tech to empower people; not to repress
Basic principles PPNL
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Using tech for good:Improving autonomy
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Road safety ;)
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Who will control ‘smart’ cars?
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Who will control ‘smart’ cars?
Hackers?
Viruses?
Terrorists?
Car company that calls them back if you don’t pay?
The AI that tells you what to do?
Or will they control themselves?
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Local vs Centralized data
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Monopolization
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The bigger the company
-> Bigger power concentration
-> Bigger chance that this company will use its power in malicious ways
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Safe communication is necessary for progress
We won’t know what will be prohibited when and where
Self-censorship
If we would have had current control systems in the past, would homosexuality still be illegal?
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The government won’t protect your privacy
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Enrypt your e-mail Protonmail
Encrypt phone / messaging Signal
Use adblockers and DNT uBlock / DNT
Use TOR browser and VPN
Don’t use services from Google, Facebook or Uber
If something is free, YOU (or actually, your data) are the product
Removing something from the internet can be practically impossible
Privacy: DIY Solutions
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Techno-progressivism / Commons
Democratize the way technologies are built
Costs, risks, and benefits of tech are equally shared
Equal access to technologies
Develop tech in a way that promotes happiness
Emotionally intelligent robots?Speed-dating Experiment
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Smart technology
Als technologie voor je denkt
bepalen programmeurs dan wat je denkt?
Dr. Matthijs Pontier, Piratenpartij – HvA, HBO Rechten, 2-9-2016
Machine Ethics
Machines are becoming more autonomous
Machines and algorithms increasingly influence our lives
We should manage that machines do not harm us
or threaten our autonomy
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Moral reasoning system
We developed moral reasoning system that balances between several moral goals
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Autonomy
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Results:
Able to simulate judge decisions about:
•Assertive outreach
•Judicial coercion after self-binding declaration
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Cars that make ethical decisions
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Why we should have mandatory Machine Ethics
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Why we should have mandatory Machine Ethics
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Why we should have mandatory Machine Ethics
Why we should have mandatory Machine Ethics
AI-Safety
Make sure the intelligence explosion benefits us
Democratically decide about ethics technology
Why every AIshould be open-soure
Algorithms and robots will increasingly influence our lives
Who will control the programmers?
Good ideas are made to be copied:
Creating extra value with no extra costs
Book: Machine Medical Ethics
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• How to develop robots with human-like ethics?
• Need for Open Source
• How to use healthcare tech in a way that improves well-being
• Changed doctor-patient relation
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Sex-robots
• Etc.
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Darkweb marketplaces move part of the supply-chain to legal market
Safest way to buy (and sell) drugs
Darkweb marketplaces
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Darkweb marketplaces
• More efficient supply-chain
• Transparency in the supply-chain
• Privacy for consumers
• Decentralization prevents power-concentration
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Darkweb marketplaces
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Money sovereignityPay cash wherever possible
Demand paying cash where it’s not possible
For online transactions, use bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency)
(bitcoin now
worth more than paypal)
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Universal Basic Income
• Stops poverty and bureaucracy• No need for control-systems that invade our privacy• Level playing field on labour market• Simulates entrepreneurship and creativity
Experiments More education More entrepreneurship More useful work Less health problems
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e-Democracy
• Easily participate in democratic process
• Vote on ideas; not on parties or persons
• Power of Ideas replace the idea of power
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• Everybody can add ideas
• Everybody can add arguments
• Best ideas and arguments automatically come up
How does it work?
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• Don’t vote once every few years, but always adjust vote
• Representation can differ per subject
• Representation is voluntary
• Makes representation personal; implies trust
Representation in an e-Democracy
Crowdsourcing a Constitution for the EU
Constitution was voted down in referendum
Lisbon-treaty largely same; no referendum
Symbolic for democratic deficit in EU
EU should be by the people, for the people
https://peoples-constitution.yrpri.org/community/468Twitter: @CrowdsourceEUFacebook: Crowdsource Europe
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Thanks!
• @Matthijs85
• Matthijs Pontier
• http://www.piratenpartij.nl/
• @Piratenpartij
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• Actief worden?
More reading and watching
Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273%
Autonomous Car Platoons
How to hack a car
Zelfrijdende auto's moeten leren wie ze dood willen rijden
Vrij van controledrift, bureaucratie en armoede met een basisinkomen
Boek: Machine Medical Ethics
Zorgrobots, maar geen botte zorg
Crowdsource EU: People's Constitution
De toekomst van democratie volgens Matthijs Pontier van de Piratenpartij
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