Thoughts Around the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Yesterday evening I went to a talk given by the Sussex branch of the British Computer Society. The title of the talk was 'Calculemus (Let us calculate): What world is AI giving us?' and, although on the subject of AI, the speaker was a philosopher. So the topic was really about how we should view developments in AI and the 'products' that will result. After presenting a view on what we mean by artificial intelligence (Is an electronic calculator intelligent because it can do sums that a human would find difficult?) the talk moved into comparisons between the learning process of a child and that of a machine. Then comparisons with other inventions, such as plastic, were explored, arguing that we should put some form of constraints on the products which were being developed by corporations, whose…
