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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence : Towards a Moral Technology / Domenico Marino, Daniele Cananzi, and Filippo Aragona.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in systems, decision and control ; Volume 519.Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2024]Edition: First edition.Description: viii, 83 pages : illustrations.ISBN:
  • 9783031509018
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Q334.7 .M375 2024
Contents:
The Fil Rouge Between Human Beings and Artificial Intelligence — A Brief Account of the Human Philosophical Thought Linked to Artificial Intelligence — Origin of the Artificial Intelligence — The Relationship Between Brain and Mind and the Hard Problem of Consciousness — Transhumanism and Posthumanism — An Epilogue — References — A Puppet Without Strings? Two Considerations on AI and Its Ethics — AI at the Test of Thinkability — Artificial Understanding of Reality: How Intelligent is AI? — Opportunities and Risks in the Application of AI: For Whom is the Ethics of AI Ethics? — Conclusion: The Other Pinocchio and the Anthropocentric Overcoming. — References — Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Challenges of Technologies — Introduction — Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: A Survey — The Risks of Unethical Artificial Intelligence — Towards a Machine Ethics — Implications for Business Ethics — AI, Data and Privacy — References — Case Studies — AI, Ethics and Health — IBM and Digital Health — AI and Health Data — AI and Holograms — The New Frontiers of Programmable Biology — AI, Economics and Ethics — AI, Antritrust and Competition Between Large Economic Groups — AI, Algorithms and Work 4.0 — AI, Poverty and Inequality — AI, Robotics and Ethics — Conclusions — Sit Finis Libri Non Finis Quaerendi — Bibliography.
Summary: It is a book made up of questions, some without certain answers, that attempts to open the reader's mind to new and, perhaps, futuristic scenarios. There are two diametrically opposed approaches to artificial intelligence today. On the one hand, there are the techno-pessimists who see only dystopian scenarios and experience technological progress with apprehension, emphasizing the dangers. On the other hand, there are the techno-optimists who tend to overestimate the positive effects, going so far as to attribute almost thaumaturgic virtues to technological progress. Our approach is meant to be secular and scientific; the risks must not be concealed, nor must they be overestimated, just as the positive aspects must not be overemphasized. In any case, as in any social phenomenon, the governance of processes and the definition of a system of rules and policies are the aspects that can create advantages or disadvantages and, above all, can determine who are the beneficiaries of the advantages and who have to bear the disadvantages. Like any new technology, this too can be dehumanizing, but technology is a tool that depends on how it is used and by whom it is used. Ethics is, therefore, a fundamental aspect. One should neither be a techno-optimist nor a techno-pessimist but should be aware that governing the economic and social structural changes that the advent of artificial intelligence will cause will be crucial to ensure prosperity for future generations and to avoid negative and even apocalyptic scenarios. So, no futurist dystopias! Humanity has so far always been able to govern technological progress. It certainly has the potential to govern what some have called 'the Final Invention,' but it will only succeed if it is able to understand the peculiarities of this new process of technological development and give it ethical content. The book provides a thoughtful review of the relationship between artificial intelligence and ethics, approaching the issue from different perspectives: philosophical, technological, economic, and legal. This will be one of the most important issues that humanity will have to face and resolve.
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Includes bibliographical references.

The Fil Rouge Between Human Beings and Artificial Intelligence — A Brief Account of the Human Philosophical Thought Linked to Artificial Intelligence — Origin of the Artificial Intelligence — The Relationship Between Brain and Mind and the Hard Problem of Consciousness — Transhumanism and Posthumanism — An Epilogue — References — A Puppet Without Strings? Two Considerations on AI and Its Ethics — AI at the Test of Thinkability — Artificial Understanding of Reality: How Intelligent is AI? — Opportunities and Risks in the Application of AI: For Whom is the Ethics of AI Ethics? — Conclusion: The Other Pinocchio and the Anthropocentric Overcoming. — References — Artificial Intelligence and Ethics Challenges of Technologies — Introduction — Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: A Survey — The Risks of Unethical Artificial Intelligence — Towards a Machine Ethics — Implications for Business Ethics — AI, Data and Privacy — References — Case Studies — AI, Ethics and Health — IBM and Digital Health — AI and Health Data — AI and Holograms — The New Frontiers of Programmable Biology — AI, Economics and Ethics — AI, Antritrust and Competition Between Large Economic Groups — AI, Algorithms and Work 4.0 — AI, Poverty and Inequality — AI, Robotics and Ethics — Conclusions — Sit Finis Libri Non Finis Quaerendi — Bibliography.

It is a book made up of questions, some without certain answers, that attempts to open the reader's mind to new and, perhaps, futuristic scenarios. There are two diametrically opposed approaches to artificial intelligence today. On the one hand, there are the techno-pessimists who see only dystopian scenarios and experience technological progress with apprehension, emphasizing the dangers. On the other hand, there are the techno-optimists who tend to overestimate the positive effects, going so far as to attribute almost thaumaturgic virtues to technological progress.

Our approach is meant to be secular and scientific; the risks must not be concealed, nor must they be overestimated, just as the positive aspects must not be overemphasized. In any case, as in any social phenomenon, the governance of processes and the definition of a system of rules and policies are the aspects that can create advantages or disadvantages and, above all, can determine who are the beneficiaries of the advantages and who have to bear the disadvantages. Like any new technology, this too can be dehumanizing, but technology is a tool that depends on how it is used and by whom it is used. Ethics is, therefore, a fundamental aspect.

One should neither be a techno-optimist nor a techno-pessimist but should be aware that governing the economic and social structural changes that the advent of artificial intelligence will cause will be crucial to ensure prosperity for future generations and to avoid negative and even apocalyptic scenarios. So, no futurist dystopias! Humanity has so far always been able to govern technological progress. It certainly has the potential to govern what some have called 'the Final Invention,' but it will only succeed if it is able to understand the peculiarities of this new process of technological development and give it ethical content.

The book provides a thoughtful review of the relationship between artificial intelligence and ethics, approaching the issue from different perspectives: philosophical, technological, economic, and legal. This will be one of the most important issues that humanity will have to face and resolve.

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