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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

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How to Catch an AI Zombie

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence September 17, 2020 Susan Schneider

Abstract: How can we determine if AI is conscious? The chapter begins by illustrating that there are potentially very serious real-world costs to getting facts about AI consciousness wrong. It then proposes a provisional framework for investigating artificial consciousness that involves several tests or markers. One test is the AI Consciousness Test, which challenges an AI with a series of...

Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence September 17, 2020 Eric Schwitzgebel, Mara Garza

Abstract: This chapter proposes four policies of ethical design of human-grade AI. Two of the policies are precautionary. Given substantial uncertainty both about ethical theory and about the conditions under which AI would have conscious experiences, the chapter argues that we should be cautious in our handling of cases where different moral theories or different theories of consciousness...