Wednesday, 28 March 2018

On the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

by Denis Larrivee

Complex technologies are shaping the manner by which we frame relations with an external world, as Heidegger forewarned, not only with its mechanical materiality, but socially in the manner of our interactions with others, and inwardly in how we ourselves are changed. New technologies pose questions about the nature of technology, human nature, and the relation between the two, and so how we view technology and what we wish it do to and for ourselves. These concerns are awakening broader interest in the technical communities that are their source. The ‘Ethically Aligned Design project documents concern thinking by members of the IEEE community on the impact of artificial intelligence on human wellbeing (see multiple topics within). Significantly its motivations bring to the fore the centrality of the human being in a classical anthropocentric perspective that has old thinking in the role of handmaiden for a revival from the new Manicheism.’

A Vision for Prioritizing Human Wellbeing 
with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

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