Alan Wilhelm1 and Peter Luh2, 1CTO @ Referential.ai, San Francisco, California, USA, 2Retired physicist, San Jose, California, USA
The Boswell Test, designed to measure AI model indispensability, comprises Test-A, assessing deep insight into a host’s nuances, and Test-B, evaluating critical thinking and reasoning. While Test-A remains beyond current AI capabilities, Test-B is implementable today. This paper details the Boswell Quotient, a novel metric methodology for Test-B, and explores avenues for its further refinement.
Boswell Test, Boswell Quotient, Turing Test, Indispensability, Performance, Evaluation, Efficiency, Boswell Test-A, Boswell Test-B, Personal insight, Critical thinking, Truthfulness, Empathy, Adaptability, Ethical alignment.
MATTHEW, UDUAK PATRICK, Department of Economics, University of Uyo, Nigeria
The study examines the effects of population, urbanization and economic growth in Nigeria using secondary data source from the publication of central bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin from 1986 to 2023. The main objective od the study was to ascertain the effect of population growth on economic growth in Nigeria and to ascertain the effect of urbanization on economic growth in Nigeria. Moreover, to achieve the stated objectives, the autoregressive distributive lag model employed to examine the effects of the independent variables on the dependent variable. Finding shows that population growth has a negative effect on economic growth in Nigeria while urbanization in Nigeria has been found to have a positive relationship with economic growth. The study therefore recommend that government should prioritize educational programs and vocational training to equip the growing population with skills necessary for the job market, thereby reducing unemployment rates and enhancing productivity. Also, to maximize the benefits of urbanization, effective urban planning must be prioritized. This includes creating policies that manage urban sprawl, ensuring access to basic services, and promoting sustainable living conditions in cities.
Population, Urbanization, and Economic growth.
Fabrizio Degni, AI Ethics and Governance Researcher, GSOM Polimi, Milano, Italy
The trend and convergence of Artificial Intelligence technologies with the human conceptions of death and afterlife presents unspotted and underrated challenges and but also opportunities for understanding consciousness, identity, and grief. This research provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of how AI is reshaping our relationship with mortality, under different domains such as the psychological impacts, technological capabilities, ethical considerations, and cultural perspectives. Through analysis of current digital memorial technologies, psychological frameworks of attachment and grief, and philosophical questions of identity, we establish that AI-enabled afterlife simulations introduce complex dynamics that both extend and disrupt traditional mourning processes: we propose a regulatory framework grounded in principles of informed consent, psychological safeguarding, and cultural sensitivity. It is a first seminal analysis and contribute to the emerging discourse on post-mortem digital identity looking forward to establishing parameters for ethically sound development of afterlife technologies.
artificial intelligence, afterlife beliefs, digital immortality, grief processing, consciousness simulation.
