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Chapter 10
New Frontiers for Ethical Considerations:
Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality
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Artificial Intelligence
 AI – is a field of learning that emulates human
intelligence
 Advances in human intelligence:
 Machine intelligence has led to Robotics
 Space exploration
 Medicine
 Advanced research
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Intelligent Agents
 Personal assistants
 Meeting scheduling
 Email handling
 Filtering
 Entertainmemnt
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Weizerburm Theory
“it is immoral to use a computer
system to replace human
functions involving interpersonal
respect, understanding and love”
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Question
 Will human beings let intelligent “creatures” keep on
getting more and more intelligent even thought they
are aware the ultimate end result would be to surpass
human intelligence?
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Question
 How much power and autonomy should we give
these creatures, and will these agents eventually take
away human autonomy and consequently take
control of human destiny?
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Two School of Thought
 All AI activities are research gone wrong or “mad
scientist”
 AI is very beneficial to humanity
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Artificial Intelligence…
 Limitations of AI:
 Lack of credible science safeguards
 Fear of a superhuman
 Abdication of individual responsibilities
 AI and ethics:
 AI agents and user responsibilities
 User accountability
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Cyberspace
 The Internet:
 Opened up new frontiers in almost all spheres of human
life
 The WWW revolutionarized indexing and delivery of
information
 E-commerce transformed global economies, changed
lives.
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Virtual Reality
 VR – is a stimulation of a real or imaginary
phenomena in three-dimensional
environments
 Is revolutionalizing the study of science
 Ethics in Virtual Reality:
 Lack of being in control
 Safety and security of users
 Human-agent interactions
 Intentions of the actor
 Accountability of the actor
 Responsibility of the actor
 Psychological effects on the actor and commnity