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.
David Edmonds: Introduction Part I: Health and Insurance 1: Julian Savulescu: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor 2: Maximilian Kiener: Cyber-hacks 3: Jonathan Pugh: AI and the end of insurance? Part II: Law and Crime 4: John Zerilli: Computer says No! 5: John Tasioulas: Guilty! Legal Adjudication 6: Binesh Hass: Predictive Policing Part III:Politics and Manipulation 7: Silvia Milano: Recommended! 8: Thomas Douglas & Gabriel de Marco: Undue Influence 9: Theodore Lechterman: The Perfect Politician Part IV: Defence 10: Linda Eggert: Autonomous Weapons 11: Mariarosaria Taddeo: Cyber Defence Part V: Economics, Skills, and the Environment 12: Glen Weyl & Aksel Sterri: The Market for Data 13: Mariarosaria Taddeo & Luciano Floridi: AI and climate change 14: Daniel Susskind: The Economics of Work 15: Carina Prunkl: Corporate Profiling 16: Carissa Véliz: Losing skills Part VI: Identity and Values 17: Muriel Leuenberger: Self-Knowledge 18: César Palacios González: Three Laws of AI 19: Peter Millican: Ethics and Games 20: Ruth Chang: Value-alignment
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.
Reviews for AI Morality
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 * An up-to-date, jargon-free and thoughtful survey. * Robin Gill, Church Times * A tour de force of 20 leading authors, brought together in a masterful editorship by David Edmonds. * Richard Lofthouse, QUAD * 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. * David Gibney, Mercator *