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As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

As If Human: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

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Intelligent machines present ethical challenges. We must assess AI decisions as if they came from a human being to empower rather than oppress. Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue for a more ethical machine intelligence by applying established moral principles.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2024
Publisher: Yale University Press


Intelligent machines present us with urgent ethical challenges every day. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness this extraordinary technology to empower rather than oppress?

Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics—sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, and versatile general intelligence. However, Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue that if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.

The authors argue that if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. They go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.

The authors argue that if we assess AI decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. They go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles in shaping our AI future. Their new framework constitutes a how-to for building a more ethical machine intelligence.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 225 x 150 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780300268294

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