Carles Sierra, CSIC

1. Collaborative economy and
Artificial Intelligence
Carles Sierra
IIIA, CSIC

2. Internet enabled:
 The disappearing computer: the cloud
 A data revolution
 An increased social closeness
 New economic models
 Democratic access to information and knowledge
BUT ALSO
 Massive information noise, and
 New forms of social exploitation and divide

3. Internet crossroad now.
Key areas of future development
 How to factor in autonomy and intelligence?
 How to redefine property? Who owns what? In
particular data.
 How to solve the conflict between economic values
and moral values?

4. From machine communication to human
communication to mixed societies communication.
 Delegation. What to delegate? Who can transfer
rights? Obligations?
 Accountability. How to account for decisions? Who
is liable?
 Verification. How can we guarantee that certain
restrictions apply to autonomy? How to enforce
behaviour?
Collaborative Economy:
(device) Autonomy

5. Collaborative Economy:
Private property
 Private property was a guarantee of resource
supply for the wellbeing of individuals and family
groups when clans dismantled. Do I need to own a
car? Maybe not, a coffee pot? Maybe yes.
 Effectiveness. Can the commons guarantee
resource supply in a timely fashion?
 Justice. Can the commons guarantee equity? How
to factor in punishment and reward? The tragedy of
the commons.

6. Collaborative Economy:
Machine morality
 Value-centred. Devices need to become moraly-
aware. Norms and conventions. How to embed
values in technology. By construction? By proof?
 Human-centred. Agreement Technologies for
human-machine interactions. Negotiation,
argumentation, trust. How to support human
dialogues and decisions?
 Community centred. Commons’ will must rule
over technology. How to implement moral code
evolution? How to allow for moral codes’
congeniality.

7. uHelp
 App to provide mutual help in sensitive areas
 Available for Android and iOS
 Technologies:
 Social network and trust flooding technology
 Semantic technologies
 Trust model integrating past experiences and
semantics
 Pilot on a single-mother association
 Future pilots on Refugees and timebanks
 Looking for entrepreneurs for a start-up.

8. uHelp

9. Thanks!