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- Next-Generation Ethics
- Next-Generation Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Next-Generation Ethics
- 2 Ethical Distinctions for Building Your Ethical Code
- Part I Technology
- Part II Business Enterprises
- Part III Engineering
- Part IV Society
- 21 Topics in Next-Generation Ethics
- 22 Techno Innovations: The Role of Ethical Standards, Law and Regulation, and the Public Interest
- 23 Evolutionary Ethics: A Potentially Helpful Framework in Engineering a Better Society
- 24 Topics in Next-Generation Medical Ethics
- 25 Next-Generation Ethical Development of Medical Devices
- 26 Looking Back to Go Forward: The Ethics of Journalism in a Social Media Age
- 27 Social Media Ethics 2.0
- 28 Artificial Intelligence, People, and Society
- 29 Ethics in Cyberspace: Freedom, Rights, and Cybersecurity
- 30 Next-Generation Religion and Ethics
- Index
- References
28 - Artificial Intelligence, People, and Society
from Part IV - Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2019
- Next-Generation Ethics
- Next-Generation Ethics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgment
- 1 Next-Generation Ethics
- 2 Ethical Distinctions for Building Your Ethical Code
- Part I Technology
- Part II Business Enterprises
- Part III Engineering
- Part IV Society
- 21 Topics in Next-Generation Ethics
- 22 Techno Innovations: The Role of Ethical Standards, Law and Regulation, and the Public Interest
- 23 Evolutionary Ethics: A Potentially Helpful Framework in Engineering a Better Society
- 24 Topics in Next-Generation Medical Ethics
- 25 Next-Generation Ethical Development of Medical Devices
- 26 Looking Back to Go Forward: The Ethics of Journalism in a Social Media Age
- 27 Social Media Ethics 2.0
- 28 Artificial Intelligence, People, and Society
- 29 Ethics in Cyberspace: Freedom, Rights, and Cybersecurity
- 30 Next-Generation Religion and Ethics
- Index
- References
Summary
In an essay about his science fiction, Isaac Asimov reflected that “it became very common … to picture robots as dangerous devices that invariably destroyed their creators.” He rejected this view and formulated the “laws of robotics,” aimed at ensuring the safety and benevolence of robotic systems. Asimov’s stories about the relationship between people and robots were only a few years old when the phrase “artificial intelligence” (AI) was used for the first time in a 1955 proposal for a study on using computers to “solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans.” Over the half-century since that study, AI has matured into sub-disciplines that have yielded a constellation of methods that enable perception, learning, reasoning, and natural language understanding.
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- Next-Generation EthicsEngineering a Better Society, pp. 442 - 443Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019