AI Morality

Edmonds, D (Ed.), (2024), 'AI Morality', (OUP)

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Oxford University Press

A philosophical task force explores how AI is revolutionizing our lives - and what moral problems it might bring, showing us what to be wary of, and what to be hopeful for.

There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution. The chapters are rich with examples from contemporary society and imaginative projections of the future. The contributors investigate problems we're all aware of, and introduce some that will be new to many readers. They discuss self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law, policing, and defence. Each of them explains the issue in a lively and illuminating way, and takes a view about how we should think and act in response. Anyone who is wondering what ethical challenges the future holds for us can start here.

Published: 08 August 2024 | ISBN: 9780198876434
 

OUC Authors

Includes the following contributions from OUC Researchers:

  • Risky Business: AI and the Future of Insurance | Jonathan Pugh
  • AI and Discriminatory Intent | Binesh Hass
  • Do AI Systems Allow Online Advertisers to Control Others? | Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas
  • Robotic Persons and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics | César Palacios-González

Reviews

Planet of the Algorithms, Literary Review, by Bryan Appleyard (Aug 2024), “A very good ... read. It shows that creating an intelligent machine as competent as – or more competent than – humans subverts almost every assumption we currently make about ourselves and the future." - Bryan Appleyard.

Book review: AI Morality, Church Times, by Robin Gill (October 2024), "This is a distinguished, well-priced, and timely collection." - Robin Gill.

The best of the academic presses for autumn 2024, The New Statesman (October 2024), "In this study of the ramifications of artificial intelligence, 24 philosophers examine the ethical problems that come in its wake. AI reaches everywhere – medicine, advertising, business, politics, work – but, conclude the contributors, not all its moral consequences are malign."