University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI

Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by ravi-delia on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:14PM (#25530454)

I'd say its just the reverse. Like the strange and consistent finding that people are shockingly unmotivated by monetary incentive, it seems likely that straight up legal penalties would be less effective than soft social pressure. We are fundamentally social creatures, and things like signaling and status are usually in the drivers seat.

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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by 908B64B197 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @02:26PM (#25530572)

A law has to pass the rigorous test of court. Soft pressure just has to get a mob going on.

> Like the strange and consistent finding that people are shockingly unmotivated by monetary incentive

I find that hard to believe. Maybe again there's some strange societal pressure against voicing that money is a motivation.

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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by indigochill on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:09PM (#25531445)

I would guess what GP is referring to is something along the lines of this book: https://www.danpink.com/books/drive/

IIRC, the idea is just that money only goes so far up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Once our material well-being is taken care of, we want mastery and autonomy and incentives geared that way are more effective than money.

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Re:University of Helsinki free MOOC on the Ethics of AI by konjin on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:26PM (#25533370)

It's quite lucky that it's not people who do most of the harm in society, it's corporations.

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