THE ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence has two goals The first goal is meta theoretical and is fulfilled by Part One which comprises the first three chapters an interpretation of the past Chapter 1 the present Chapter 2 and the future of AI Chapter 3 Part One develops the thesis that AI is an unprecedented divorce between agency and intelligence On this basis Part Two investigates the consequences of such a divorce developing the thesis that AI as a new form of agency can be harnessed ethically and unethically It begins Chapter 4 by offering a unified perspective on the many principles that have been proposed to frame the ethics of AI This leads to a discussion Chapter 5 of the potential risks that may undermine the application of these principles and then Chapter 6 an analysis of the relation between ethical principles and legal norms and a definition of soft ethics as post compliance ethics Part Two continues by analysing the ethical challenges caused by the development and use of AI Chapter 7 evil uses of AI Chapter 8 and good practices when applying AI Chapter 9 The last group of chapters focuses on the design development and deployment of AI for Social Good or AI4SG Chapter 10 the positive and negative impacts of AI on the en