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A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for.
There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution. The chapters are rich with examples from contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future. The contributors investigate problems we're all aware of, and introduce some that will be new to many readers. They discuss self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law, policing, and defence. Each of them explains the issue in a lively and illuminating way, and takes a view about how we should think and act in response. Anyone who is wondering what ethical challenges the future holds for us can start here.
List of Contributors
Introduction
David Edmonds
PART I. DEFENCE, HEALTH, LAW
1:Autonomous Weapons System and Human Rights
Linda Eggert
2:Cyber-Risks
and Medical Ethics
Maximilian Kiener
3:Risky Business: AI and the Future of Insurance
Jonathan Pugh
4:AI and Discriminatory Intent
Binesh Hass
PART II. POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
5:The Perfect Politician
Theodore M. Lechterman
6:Collective Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence
Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth
PART III. WORK AND PLAY
7:Work and Meaning: A Challenge for Economics
Daniel Susskind
8:Losing Skills
Carissa Véliz
9:Benevolent Algorithmic Managers
Charlotte Unruh
10:What's Your Price? Three Cheers for Data Markets
Aksel Sterri
n 11Work and Play in the Shadow of AI
John Tasioulas
PART IV. MANIPULATION, AUTONOMY,AND ALGORITHMS
12:The Silent Meddling of Algorithms
Carina Prunkl
13:Recommended!
Silvia Milano
14:Do AI Systems Allow Online Advertisers to
Control Others?
Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas
15:Should You Let AI Tell You Who You Are and What
You Should Do?
Muriel Leuenberger
16:Information Flows in the Digital Age
Emma Bluemke and Andrew Trask
PART V. IDENTITY AND VALUES
17:Robotic Persons and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
César Palacios-González
18:Is AI Ethics All Fluff?
John Zerilli
19:Artificial General Intelligence: Shocks, Sentience,and Moral Status
Peter Millican
20:Human in the Loop!
Ruth Chang
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A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for.
There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution. The chapters are rich with examples from contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future. The contributors investigate problems we're all aware of, and introduce some that will be new to many readers. They discuss self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law, policing, and defence. Each of them explains the issue in a lively and illuminating way, and takes a view about how we should think and act in response. Anyone who is wondering what ethical challenges the future holds for us can start here.
