Monday, February 25, 2019

Good choices 1

A good action freely chosen, that's how Jay Richards describes virtue in The Human Advantage. Your "character" is the sum of the virtues and vices you have developed over your life so far. 


Human virtue, the ability to choose goodness, makes Jay an optimist about the future of human workers in an age of smart machines. There are plenty of pessimists on that subject.

Artificial intelligence and robots make people uneasy about the role AI will play in the future of humanity. Many fear the mass take-over of jobs by robots who can do tasks faster and more accurately - at less cost - than humans. 

It's a valid concern. But Jay says that AI will never be able to do everything humans can do. Humans will have the advantage in the world of work when they develop certain virtues.

(cont'd tomorrow)

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