Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Professor of Global Public Health, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press 2015) and editor of Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press 2016); and the co-editor of The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2015) and Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge). He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political and legal philosophy.

• AcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsA Short Introduction to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, S. Matthew LiaoPart I: Building Ethics Into Machines1. Machine Morality: Building or Learning, Peter Railton2. The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self Driving Cars, Innocent Threats, and the Distribution of Harm, F.M. Kamm3. The Moral Psychology of AI and the Ethical Opt-Out Problem, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, and Iyad Rahwan4. Modeling and Reasoning with Preferences and Ethical Priorities in AI Systems, Andrea Loreggia, Nicholas Mattei, Francesca Rossi, and K. Brent Venable5. Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution, Stephen WolframPart II: The Near Future of Artificial Intelligence6. Planning for Mass Unemployment: Precautionary Basic Income, Aaron James7. Autonomous Weapons and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Peter Asaro8. Near Term Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Matrix, Cathy O'Neil and Hanna Gunn9. The Ethics of Artificial Sexuality, Kate DevlinPart III: Long-Term Impact of Superintelligence10. Public Policy and Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach, Nick Bostrom, Allan Dafoe, and Carrick Flynn11. Artificial Intelligence: A Binary Approach, Stuart Russell12. Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems, Jessica Taylor, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Patrick LaVictoire, and Andrew Critch13. Moral Machines: From Value Alignment to Embodied Virtue, Wendell Wallach and Shannon Vallor14. Machine Learning Values, Steve PetersenPart IV: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and Moral Status15. How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines, Susan Schneider16. Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom, Eric Schwitzgebel, with Mara Garza17. The Moral Status and Rights of Artificial Intelligence, S. Matthew LiaoIndex

This is a superior work, particularly considering that it is an edited volume. All the articles are first-rate, and the four-part arrangement advances the argument organically...Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. Students in two-year technical programs. General readers.