S&S Dinner Dialogues, with Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong - Moral Artificial Intelligence
Event Details
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to be used for many life-and-death decisions —such as autonomous cars and weapons as well as criminal punishment and distribution of kidneys for transplantation. Is it immoral to leave such decisions to machines? Will AI systems or robots act in immoral or destructive ways? Will computers make morally better decisions than humans do? Can AI improve human moral judgments? We will discuss these and related questions, and I will describe how our Bass Connections research group uses a hybrid method of programming morality into artificial intelligence systems.
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Video & Readings:
- Understanding the four types of AI, from reactive robots to self-aware beings – The Conversation
- Why are we reluctant to trust robots? – The Guardian
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