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- Offers a comprehensive review on the current state of AI and its social impact
- Discusses findings on how and which moral values should be taught to machines
- Offers alternative reading pathways addressing both non-expert and more specialized readers
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 53)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy. Based on a dialogue between an AI scientist and a novelist philosopher, the book discusses important findings on which moral values machines can be taught and how. In turn, it investigates what kind of artificial intelligence (AI) people do actually want.
What are the main consequences of the integration of AI in people’s every-day life? In order to co-exist and collaborate with humans, machines need morality, but which moral values should we teach them? Moreover, how can we implement benevolent AI? These are just some of the questions carefully examined in the book, which offers a comprehensive account of ethical issues concerning AI, on the one hand, and a timely snapshot of the power and potential benefits of this technology on the other. Starting with an introduction to common-sense ethical principles, the book then guides the reader, helpingthem develop and understand more complex ethical concerns and placing them in a larger, technological context. The book makes these topics accessible to a non-expert audience, while also offering alternative reading pathways to inspire more specialized readers.
Keywords
- Computational Morality
- Programming Artificial Emotions
- Machine Autonomy
- Identity in the Digital World
- Machine Decision Making
- Counterfactual Reasoning
- Critical Thinking and AI
- Evolution of morality
- Employing AI for moral understanding
- Identity in the digital world
- Man-machine symbiosis
- Superintelligent machines
- Distribution of AI-produced wealth
- Social impact of intelligent machines
- engineering ethics
Reviews
“This book challenges us to remake the myths into which we have all been born, in terms of which we have all been educated and currently live – if only in the mode of rejection, struggling to free ourselves. The great promise of this work is that it can help us refashion our city without the extermination of older generations in order to remove resistance to change.” (Jeffrey White, Prometheus, Vol. 36 (4), December, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), Caparica, Portugal
Luís Moniz Pereira
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Departamento de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Agrupamento de Escolas Anselmo de Andrade, Almada, Portugal
António Barata Lopes
About the authors
António Lopes has a Licentiate's degree in Philosophy from the Portuguese Catholic University, and a Master in the same area from the Nova University of Lisbon. He is a philosophy teacher at the Anselmo de Andrade High School, where he is Coordinator of the Department of Social and Human Sciences. He published – with the Parsifal editions – the novels Como se Fosse a Última Vez (As If It Were the Last Time) and O Vale da Tentação (The Valley of Temptation). He is co-author of the book Animais que Ficaram para a História (Animals that Went Down in History), recently published by Editora Manuscrito, an imprint of the Grupo Presença. He collaborated in the book A Máquina Iluminada – Cognição e Computação (The Enlightened Machine – Cognition and Computation), authored by Luís Moniz Pereira, published by Fronteira do Caos Editores, 2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Machine Ethics
Book Subtitle: From Machine Morals to the Machinery of Morality
Authors: Luís Moniz Pereira, António Barata Lopes
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39630-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39629-9Published: 23 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39632-9Published: 23 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39630-5Published: 22 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 164
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Ethics, Robotics and Automation, Cognitive Psychology