BENEVOLENT GOVERNMENT NOW

Time Inconsistency of Benevolent Government Economies

A dynamic Walrasian economy is said to exhibit inconsistency if the competitive equilibrium path resulting from government reoptimization at some time rr0 is not a continuation of the competitive equilibrium path resulting from the initial government optimization at time 0. The present paper establishes necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency for a general class of dynamic Walrasian...

Benevolent Agents

Veterinary Benevolent Fund.

Godseed: Benevolent or Malevolent?

It is known that benign looking AI objectives may result in powerful AI drives that may pose a risk to the human society. We examine the alternative scenario of what happens when universal goals that are not human-centric are used for designing AI agents. We follow a design approach that tries to exclude malevolent motivations from AI’s, however, we see that even objectives that seem benevolent...

Royal Irish Benevolent Fund Society

It is proposed to establish in the Bengal Presidency a Branch of the Royal Irish Medical Benevolent Fund Society. The object of the Society is to relieve cases of distress among medical men, and their widows and orphans, in Ireland. It is supported by subscriptions from members of the Profession, raised by means of local " Branches," of which the Society has now 36?34 in Ireland; one in Bombay,...