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Digital transformation and AI more adequately defined as Data-Based Systems DS will create new jobs and lead to disruptions. Will digital transformation and Data-Based Systems DS lead to a massive reduction of paid professional tasks for humans? This book offers a critical and comprehensive discussion of the impact of digital transformation on human jobs from an ethical perspective. It presents an ethically sound and concrete model to address this pressing issue for societies worldwide: the Society-, Entrepreneurship-, Research-Time-Model (SERT).
List of contents
1 Introduction.- 2 Creation or Destruction of Paid Jobs?.- 3 The Uniqueness of Digital Transformation and Data-Based Systems (DS).- 4 Massive Reduction of Paid Professional Tasks.- 5 Relief as a Burden the End of Striving for Full Employment.- 6 Which Functions Does a Paid Job Fulfill?.- 7 Unconditional Basic Income.- 8 Society-, Entrepreneurship-, Research-Time-Model (SERT).- 9 Outlook: Human Rights-Based Data-Based Systems (HRBDS) and an International Data-Based Systems Agency (IDA) at the UN.
About the author
Peter G. Kirchschlaeger is Full Professor of Theological Ethics and Director of the Institute of Social Ethics ISE of the University of Lucerne. He is also Visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich. Prior, he was Visiting Fellow at Yale University.
Summary
Digital transformation and “AI”— more adequately defined as “Data-Based Systems DS”— will create new jobs and lead to disruptions. Will digital transformation and Data-Based Systems DS lead to a massive reduction of paid professional tasks for humans? This book offers a critical and comprehensive discussion of the impact of digital transformation on human jobs from an ethical perspective. It presents an ethically sound and concrete model to address this pressing issue for societies worldwide: the Society-, Entrepreneurship-, Research-Time-Model (SERT).
