{"id":35207,"date":"2018-10-31T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35207"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:17:57","slug":"who-wields-ai-and-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-wields-ai-and-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wields AI, and how:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/opinion\/columns\/artificial-intelligence-can-become-an-emancipatory-agent-for-the-workforce-4839128\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who wields AI, and how<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in uniting the goals of development and public prosperity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li><b> What is an Automation? <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An automation is a product of Artificial Intelligence (AI). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been recognized as a harbinger of a different era of socio-economic relations. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><b> What is the major concern?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surveys indicate that technologies related to AI will kill from a third to a half of all jobs within a decade.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><b> What should be India\u2019s national policy towards AI?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is an urgency of framing policy on AI in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over 90 per cent of the Indian workforce is organized informally and is vulnerable to sweeping economic upheavals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI will promote the expansion of contractual economy resulting cut in wages. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation has already been taken place in construction and manufacturing sector giving a blow to the contractual system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Construction and manufacturing labour force will not be able to collectively bargain against an industry when the sector starts adopting 3-D printing technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><b> What would be the possible impact in the farming sector?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The labors in the farming sector are already impacted by the pricing of produce. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will suffer very badly due to the imported cheap food produced by automated farming. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vehicle assembly line production is already being replaced by robots.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farm labour, already in peril due to pricing, will suffer due to the glut of imported cheap food produced by automated farming and the agricultural robotics industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><b> How has the IT industry been impacted?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiring has decreased by more than 40 per cent in the last year with sharper cuts predicted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Outsourcing and those jobs are at risk. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Job creation figures in the non-farm formal sectors have fallen by half from 2011 to 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><b> What are the options that the government has?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government can ensure employment in the public works &#8211; works needed to raise living standards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government must invest heavily in large infrastructure and development projects, and liberally use automation to free up sections of the workforce to work on them. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simultaneously, the government must encourage horizontal cooperatives based around AI to ensure knowledge-worker controlled decentralized progress in AI on the ground.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><b> How will AI work in the Indian scenario? <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a necessity of shifting the workforce out of agriculture for a more just, equitable, and sustainable economy. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work force that would be freed from the agricultural sector will require a robust rural infrastructure and industry. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation presents an interesting opportunity here since it provides a means to transform agriculture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation has the capacity of replacing a group of farmers over a period of time which cannot individually replace. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only 10 per cent farmers in India own land. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It easier to allot land to a smaller farming population and teach them how to use automated machines to get higher, more consistent yields in conjunction with other improved farming practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation provides a means to transform agriculture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But freeing of agricultural labour should be done only after preparing adequate infrastructure to with the help of automation to absorb this labour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This transition cannot be left to the mercies of the market. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent experiments at re-skilling have demonstrated the inadequacy of infrastructure to absorb labour. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example of public works that would provide the opportunity to implement automation &#8211; affordable housing, Mass renewable energy generation etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Technologies like 3-D printing could become a catalyst for getting the sort of productivity needed for such ambitious projects.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The domain of distribution and management can be greatly benefited through automation in a country like India. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Machine learning processes can be used for enhancing logistics and operations. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li><b> What are the benefits that can be derived from a better distribution and management system?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Worker-run cooperatives to become efficient enough to compete against traditional corporate structures, allowing the government to incentivize such formations, in turn increasing worker prosperity. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI-based cooperatives can be the bedrock of a more just economy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will make bound governmental agencies to use AI to run PSUs better.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Structures of governance could be strengthened and improved with AI: example &#8211; statistical analysis can be used to detect malpractices, fraud, and corruption. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li><b> What is being currently offered by AI?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI is being used to combat propaganda and spurious news. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Computational linguistics can be used to preserve the vast cultural heritage of our marginalized peoples.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could be used in the understaffed but vital agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li><b> How will the society be impacted?<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI will affect social relation depending on who wields it and how.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a demand for an education policy that recognizes the paramountcy of quality education in an age of automation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Education must be free, universal, and of high quality in a future economy dominated by AI.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AI can be used to protect the interest of our labour force. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can unite the goals of development and public prosperity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wields AI, and how:\u00a0 Context: The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in uniting the goals of development and public prosperity. What is an Automation? An automation is a product of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It has been recognized as a harbinger of a different era of socio-economic relations. What is the major concern? 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