AI ethics

by Coeckelbergh, Mark

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Full title :AI ethics / Mark Cockelbergh.

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An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues. Written by a philosopher of technology, AI Ethics goes beyond the usual hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. Mark Coeckelbergh describes influential AI narratives, ranging from Frankenstein's monster to transhumanism and the technological singularity. He surveys relevant philosophical discussions: questions about the fundamental differences between humans and machines and debates over the moral status of AI. He explains the technology of AI, describing different approaches and focusing on machine learning and data science. He offers an overview of important ethical issues, including privacy concerns, responsibility and the delegation of decision making, transparency, and bias as it arises at all stages of data science processes. He also considers the future of work in an AI economy. Finally, he analyzes a range of policy proposals and discusses challenges for policymakers. He argues for ethical practices that embed values in design, translate democratic values into practices and include a vision of the good life and the good society.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Description:1 online resource (1 PDF (248 pages).).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262357067, 0262357062
oclc:on1309413541
LC Classification:Q334.7
Dewey Decimal:170

Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall -- The AI Hype and Fears: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who Is the Smartest of Us All? -- The Real and Pervasive Impact of AI -- The Need to Discuss Ethical and Societal Problems -- This Book -- 2: Superintelligence, Monsters, and the AI Apocalypse -- Superintelligence and Transhumanism -- Frankenstein's New Monster -- Transcendence and the AI Apocalypse -- How to Go beyond Competition Narratives and beyond the Hype -- 3: All about the Human.

Is General AI Possible? Are There Fundamental Differences between Humans and Machines? -- Modernity, (Post)humanism, and Postphenomenology -- 4: Just Machines? -- Questioning the Moral Status of AI: Moral Agency and Moral Patiency -- Moral Agency -- Moral Patiency -- Toward More Practical Ethical Issues -- 5: The Technology -- What Is Artificial Intelligence? -- Different Approaches and Subfields -- Applications and Impact -- 6: Don't Forget the Data (Science) -- Machine Learning -- Data Science -- Applications -- 7: Privacy and the Other Usual Suspects -- Privacy and Data Protection.

Manipulation, Exploitation, and Vulnerable Users -- Fake News, the Da…