Well-being in metrics and policy
Abstract
This century is full of progress paradoxes, with unprecedented economic development and improvements in longevity, health, and literacy coexisting with climate change, persistent poverty in the poorest countries, and increasing income inequality and unhappiness in many wealthy ones. Economic growth and the traditional metrics used to assess it—particularly gross domestic product (GDP)—are necessary but not sufficient to guarantee growth that is inclusive and politically and socially sustainable. Well-being metrics, derived from large-scale surveys and questionnaires that capture the income and nonincome determinants of individual well-being, often provide a different picture of what is happening to people. These metrics can provide insight into policies to sustain human welfare in the future.
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What makes your life worth living in AI age?
Carol Graham et al. wrote an article entitled "Well-being in metrics and policy" (1). The article shows that the life satisfaction of individuals worldwide correlates with income, health, employment, and education as well as with positive moods, freedom, and beliefs about the benefits of work effort (1). However, in the near future, many of our human jobs may be replaced by AI or automated systems. Professor Stephen Hawking warns that such advancements will allow computer to develop autonomous intelligence and overtake humans, posing a threat to our very existence (2). Artificial intelligence could end mankind (2). In the future AI age, adaptability at the individual, organization, and societal level are essential for navigating the rapidly evolving technology landscape (3). What makes your life worth living in AI age? We must prepare for a solution since the individual life satisfaction worldwide correlates with his/her employment. We must avoid no hope in no job or in no money.
References:
1. Carol Graham et al., Well-being in metrics and policy, Science 19 Oct 2018: Vol. 362, Issue 6412, pp. 287-288
2. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540
3. https://www.icao.int/training/Documents/A.I.pg.14.15.16.icao_training_re...