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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 contents
- 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
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- 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
- Index 235
About the author
David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and a former BBC radio journalist. He is the author or editor of many critically acclaimed philosophy books (and one on chess) which together have been translated into over two dozen languages. These include the (with John Eidinow) the international best seller Wittgenstein's Poker and, most recently, a biography, Parfit: A Philosopher and his Mission to Save Morality. David also hosts a couple of philosophy podcasts. Philosophy Bites, which he makes with Nigel Warburton has had over 45 million downloads.
Summary
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.
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The essays in this collection cast an informed and up-to-date eye over an area that is evolving very rapidly. The book is very accessible...Many of the contributions are lively and astute.
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A very good ... read. It shows that creating an intelligent machine as competent as - or more competent than - humans subverts almost every assumption we currently make about ourselves and the future. Bryan Appleyard, Literary Review
