Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

  • 14h 23m
  • S. Matthew Liao
  • Oxford University Press (US)
  • 2021

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rapidly progress, questions about the ethics of AI, in both the near-future and the long-term, become more pressing than ever. This volume features seventeen original essays by prominent AI scientists and philosophers and represents the state-of-the-art thinking in this fast-growing field.

Organized into four sections, this volume explores the issues surrounding how to build ethics into machines; ethical issues in specific technologies, including self-driving cars, autonomous weapon systems, surveillance algorithms, and sex robots; the long term risks of superintelligence; and whether AI systems can be conscious or have rights.

Though the use and practical applications of AI are growing exponentially, discussion of its ethical implications is still in its infancy. This volume provides an invaluable resource for thinking through the ethical issues surrounding AI today and for shaping the study and development of AI in the coming years.

In this Book

  • Ethical Learning, Natural and Artificial
  • The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self-Driving Cars, Medical Treatments, and the Distribution of Harm
  • The Moral Psychology of AI and the Ethical Opt-Out Problem
  • Modeling and Reasoning with Preferences and Ethical Priorities in AI Systems
  • Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution
  • Planning for Mass Unemployment: Precautionary Basic Income
  • Autonomous Weapons and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
  • Near-Term Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Matrix
  • The Ethics of the Artificial Lover
  • Public Policy and Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Binary Approach
  • Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems
  • Moral Machines: From Value Alignment to Embodied Virtue
  • Machines Learning Values
  • How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines
  • Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom
  • The Moral Status and Rights of Artificial Intelligence
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