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SUMMARY:China Goes Global: China's AI Challenge: How Confucian Communism C
 an Help - Professor Daniel Bell\, Tsingua University
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CONTACT:Sally March
DESCRIPTION:Professor Daniel Bell\, Dean of Political Science and Public A
 dministration at Shandong University & Professor at Tsinghua University\, 
 will be joined by a panel to discuss the possible future of AI in China an
 d how it may interplay with both Communism and Confucianism.\n\nIn Karl Ma
 rx's ideal of communism\, advanced machines do the socially necessary labo
 ur and we are free to lead our lives as we see fit. Marx would probably ha
 ve been thrilled by the prospect that AI will gradually replace menial job
 s and provide technological conditions for the realisation of communism. T
 he state must lead the transition to communism\, but it will wither away o
 nce communism is realised because people's basic needs will be met by mach
 ine-workers and there will be no need for a coercive state. But Marx did n
 ot foresee the possibility that machines might eventually outsmart even "f
 ully-developed individuals\," with the risk that human beings could be ens
 laved by machine-masters.\n\nGiven this possibility\, it would be foolhard
 y to even hope that the state will wither away. There is a need for a stro
 ng and capable pro-human organisation that represents the interests of the
  vast majority of people\, not just to facilitate the transition to a soci
 ety composed of "fully developed individuals\," but also to ensure that hu
 man beings maintain their dominance over machines.\n\nOne hopes that such 
 worries will only become live political issues in the long term\, several 
 decades from now. In the short to medium term\, the development of AI will
  lead to ethical dilemmas and we must look beyond the Marxist tradition fo
 r insights\, especially in the Chinese context.\n\n\nTea will be served pr
 ior the beginning of the event.\n
LOCATION:LT2\, Cambridge Judge Business School
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