Social Contract for the AI Age

Abstract

Just as earlier social contracts helped shape societies for a common purpose, the Social Contract for the AI Age has a transformative vision, one that transcends the technological features of artificial intelligence and seeks to provide foundations for a new society. Consider, for example, how the Covid-19 pandemic urgently requires a new society with new structure and order, approach new ways to share data and coordinate action, accelerated social reliance on digital service across businesses, education, and government services. The Social Contract for the AI Age would create standards for a new international system. It focuses on the conduct of each nation, relations with international business and not for profit entities, and the cooperation of nations. Just as TCP / IP is the platform for communication among internet users, the Social Contract for AI Age is a platform for connection among governments, stakeholders, and private and public institutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 09, 2020
Accession Number
AD1177516

Entities

People

  • Alex Pentland
  • David Silbersweig
  • Marc Rotenberg
  • Michael Dukakis
  • Nazli Choucri
  • Thomas Patterson
  • Tuan A. Nguyen
  • Vaira Vike-freiberga
  • Vint Cerf
  • Zlatko Lagumdzija

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Covid-19
  • Data Rights
  • Education
  • Environmental Protection
  • Governments
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Law
  • International Organizations
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Scientific Research
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Supply Chain
  • United Nations
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy