AI can help to create a humane society

Abstract

Cognition Amplifiers (COGs) and Guardian Angels (GATs) are two types of intelligent Agents technologies that assist humankind. A Cognition Amplifier is a Personal Enduring Autonomic Intelligent Agent that anticipates what you want to do and helps you to do it with less effort. A Cognition Amplifier can perform day to day tasks such as buying and selling, banking, and answer routine emails. A Guardian Angel is a Personal Enduring Autonomic Intelligent Agent assigned to each person on the planet to ensure the user's safety, security and wellbeing. A Guardian Angel can discover and warn the user about unanticipated events such as just-in-time warnings about hurricanes, earthquakes, extreme weather as well as potential impending problems of food security, water security and energy security. Together these intelligent agents can be used to create a Humane Society. AI technologies can be used to monitor, diagnose and remediate problems using personalized Guardian Angels and ensure basic necessities and protect human rights of every person on earth.To do these tasks, GATs and COGs must be always-on, always working and always-learning. They should be capable of automated discovery from multiple Internet-based data and information sources by monitoring, analyzing and learning from own experience and experience of others and by sharing knowledge with a community of GATs and COGs. Big Data from the global community of GATs and COGs, suitably anonymized, can be used to learn appropriate responses for every possible situation. They learn preferences by observing user choices, learn using task similarity and user similarity, learn from error correction data, and/or simply learning by asking using clarification dialog. These tasks require the development of foundational AI technologies of data driven learning, augmented intelligence through human-machine collaboration, multi-lingual and multimedia data mining, autonomous and autonomic self-healing system technologies.