Having decided that my project’s mode of representation will be a creative output, I realise I will need to reignite my artistic skills while also keeping an eye on the multiple theoretical disciplines relevant to my thesis. I have broken down each essential resource and skill below.
Month: October 2023
1.5.1 KIPP meeting 1
This week I attended the first KIPP group meeting. Questions from peers helped me to identify some thoughts on my project which were left out of my week 5 blog post. Crucially, I didn’t explain that my proposal (to be in favour of a 98% corporation tax on AI companies) would include the notion that newly generated tax revenue would be used to offset the cost of AI in some way. My initial idea was that the newly unemployed could claim financial support, whether that be directly, through a specific ‘AI unemployment fund’, or indirectly, i.e. more cash to put towards the benefits system.
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1.5 Outline your provisional project topic and format (‘mode of representation’)
Should a 98% corporation tax be introduced for companies which primarily utilise AI for the purpose of generating profit, or helping others to generate profit? My project will investigate the implications of this policy proposal, arguing in favour of this rather radical measure.
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1.4 Reflect on the ethical norms, values, principles or theories that will inform their approach to the intervention
With respect to my current idea for my Futures Project (a proposal to increase corporation tax for AI companies to 98%), the ethical risks are minimal. The predominant sources of information employed for this research encompass economic, political, technological, and ethical materials, all of which inherently pose low ethical risks.
1.3 Reflect on the programme core course and its relevance to the development of your project idea
I gained a small amount of experience working with law during my time in financial services, but I have never formally studied it. My programme’s core course, Data and AI Ethics, Law, and Governance, was my first exposure to law within an academic environment. I was pleasantly surprised; I had imagined law to be rather a tedious discipline, but I quickly saw we would not be memorising long, dry legal texts. During the course intensive, I really enjoyed thinking about how legislation can be interpreted in different ways.
