Manifesto CoreTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
Automation
Automation may remove genuinely degrading labour, but removing human participation from productive activity is not an unquestioned good.
Policy catalogueTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
Manifesto Core / DerivedArtificial Intelligence
AI may be used as a tool but should not displace human judgment merely because automation is technically possible or economically efficient.
Position
AI may be used as a tool, but should not displace human judgment simply because automation is technically possible or economically efficient.
Policy
- AI should be evaluated by its effects on human competence, employment, autonomy and institutional power.
- Human decision-makers should remain available in matters of serious legal or moral consequence.
- The existence of a capability does not create an obligation to deploy it.
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Surveillance
Citizens should retain meaningful private spaces free from permanent surveillance, with the detailed rules not yet settled.
- Manifesto CoreTechnology, AI and Human-Scale Life
Technology: General Doctrine
Technological development is not synonymous with human progress, and should be judged by its effects on autonomy, family, community and work.
- Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life
Purpose of Education
Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.
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