Ethics of AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Abstract

The standard solution to new technology is to center the ethics of robotics and artificial intelligence on ”concerns” of various kinds. Many of these fears end up being rather outdated; a few are essentially accurate but barely relevant (computer technological advances will annihilate businesses that make pictures on film, audio cassettes, or vinyl records); others are essentially accurate but extremely pertinent (automobiles will cause the deaths of children and drastically alter the landscape). Some of these fears are consistently incorrect when they indicate that technology will totally transform humans. This paper analyzes the problems and deflates the non-problems.