Book review
"Ethics of artificial intelligence", by Matthew Liao
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2021i23p157-163Abstract
The British company DeepMind Technologies, founded in 2010 and acquired by Google in 2014, is a reference in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI); in 2016, its AlphaGo program not only beat the world champion of the millennial Chinese game Go, South Korea's Lee Sedol, but did so with unprecedented moves. The feat resonated with the AI community, spurring China's recognition of the technology's strategic role. In the same year, not by coincidence, the Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness at NYU, under the coordination of philosophers David Chalmers and Ned Block, gathered about thirty speakers, among technology and humanities researchers, in the conference "AI Ethics".
In an effort to identify how to introduce ethical principles and human values into intelligent systems, the panels addressed concepts such as machine morality and ethics, artificial morality, and friendly AI. Throughout the conference, however, a consensus was established that ethics belongs to the human sphere, that is, it permeates the choices of developers and users. It fell to Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom, author of the book "Superintelligence" (2014), to open the event by warning about the benefits and risks of the realization of the "intelligent machine" in the 21st century. In addition to Bostrom, the conference featured talks by Peter Asaro, John Basl, Meia Chita-Tegmark, Kate Devlin, Vasant Dhar, Virginia Dignum, Mara Garza, Daniel Kahneman, Adam Kolber, Yann Le-Cun, Gary Marcus, Steve Petersen, Francesca Rossi, Stuart Russell, Ronald Sandler, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Susan Schneider, Eric Schwitzgebel, Frans Svensson, Jaan Tallinn, Max Tegmark, Wendell Wallach, Stephen Wolfram, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
References
BOSTROM, Nick; YUDKOWSKY, Eliezer. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. In: FRANKISH, Keith; RAMSEY, William (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Disponível em: cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-artificial-intelligence/ethics-of-artificial-intelligenceB46D2A9DF7CF3A9D92601D9A8ADA58A8. Acesso em: 12 maio 2021.
COECKELBERGH, Mark. Artificial Intelligence, Responsibility Attribution, and a Relational Justification of Explainability. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2019. Disponível em: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-019-00146-8. Acesso em: 5 abril 2021.
COECKELBERGH, Mark. AI Ethics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
WALLACH, Mendell; ALLEN, Colin. Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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