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Module 10: New Frontiers for Computer
Ethics: Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
Artificial Intelligence
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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:
– 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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The Future Role of Autonomous
Agents
AI has made impressive progress in manufacturing, consumer
products, finance, management, and medicine.
Advances have also been made in knowledge engineering systems,
perception, human language understanding, fuzzy systems, and
modeling of the brain and evolution [10].
The current success stories in AI are in areas such as machine
vision, speech understanding, and knowledge processing do not
incorporate common sense, thus progress in AI research as a
realization of human intelligence has been dismal at best.
However, the future of AI is going to remain controversial.
Two schools of thought have been forming according to what is
perceived as good or bad about AI’s contribution to humanity.
– In one school are those who take a dark view of AI contributions, labeling all AI
activities as research gone wrong, “mad scientist” research in the spirit of Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein. They list a litany of concerns:
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In contrast to these naysayers, the other
school see the future of AI as very
beneficial to humanity.
– They see a fruitful partnership with the agents
in which the agents are relieving us of all our
dangerous and tedious tasks, making our
lives a little easier and helping us reach our
ultimate goal of the good life.
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