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Module 8: New Frontiers for Ethical
Considerations: Artificial Intelligence,
Cyberspace and Virtual Reality
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
Cyberspace
Virtual Reality
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Introduction
Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyberspace
(CP), and virtual reality are all opening up
new frontiers
Creating new possibilities
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Artificial Intelligence
 AI – is a field of learning that emulates
human intelligence
Advances in human intelligence:
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Machine intelligence has led to Robotics
Space exploration
Medicine
Advanced research
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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:
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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
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