MORAL AI

A balanced and thought provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality Can they respect privacy And what can we do to make AI safe and fair The artificial intelligence revolution has begun Today there are self driving cars on our streets autonomous weapons in our armies robot surgeons in our hospitals and AI s presence in our lives will only increase Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation and ease others are alarmed by its destructive potential But one thing is clear this is a technology like no other one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality In Moral AI world renowned researchers in moral psychology philosophy and artificial intelligence Jana Schaich Borg Walter Sinnott Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer tackle these thorny issues head on Writing lucidly and calmly they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field peeling away the exaggeration and misleading arguments Instead they offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI programs from racial equity to personal privacy fake news to autonomous weaponry Ultimately they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethicall