Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
Reflections on Artificial Intelligence (Book)
The Legal, Moral and Ethical Dimensions
The development of Artificial Intelligence has brought with it many new questions, not least the legal, moral and ethical implications of the technology. This book not only looks at present-day answers to questions but offers much original material.
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Blay Whitby is a visiting lecturer in AI at the University of Sussex. He gained an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford, an MA in Philosophy and an MSc in Knowledge Based Systems at the University of Sussex. He is also a freelance writer, the author of AI: A Handbook of Professionalism (Ellis Horwood 1988) and a member of the Editorial Board of Law, Computers and Artificial Intelligence.
Preface 5
Introduction:
New Science, New Technologies and Society 8
Social implications of AI 19
Why the Turing Test is AI's biggest blind alley 35
AI and the Law:
Learning to speak each other's language 44
AI and the Law:
Proceed with Caution 53
Ethical AI 63
The Computer Representation of Moral Reasoning 68
Implications of the Computer Representation
of Moral Reasoning 81
The potential Moral Duties and
Rights of Intelligent Artifacts 93
The Virtual Sky is not the limit:
Ethics in Virtual Reality 106
Bibiliography 117
Index 122
