A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can
computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and
fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today there are self-driving cars on
our streets autonomous weapons in our armies robot surgeons in our hospitals - and AI's
presence in our lives will only increase. Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation
and ease others are alarmed by its destructive potential. But one thing is clear: this is a
technology like no other one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of
human intelligence and morality. In Moral AI world-renowned researchers in moral psychology
philosophy and artificial intelligence - Jana Schaich Borg Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and
Vincent Conitzer - tackle these thorny issues head-on. Writing lucidly and calmly they lay out
the recent advances in this still nascent field peeling away the exaggeration and misleading
arguments. Instead they offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI
programs from racial equity to personal privacy fake news to autonomous weaponry. Ultimately
they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethically but that
its potential cannot be achieved without careful reflection on the values we wish to imbue it
with. This is an essential primer for any thinking person.
