Matthew Liao: The Ethics of AI
Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor
Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. AI can now recognize objects in images and videos, transcribe speech, translate between languages, beat humans in Jeopardy, at Go and poker, paint in the style of van Gogh, write Beatles-like music, help prepare legal documents, trade stocks, drive cars, fly drones, write its own encryption language, identify cancer in tissues and solve the quantum state of many particles at once. In the coming years, it is all but expected that AI will reach and exceed human performance on many more, and increasingly complex, tasks. As AI technologies continue to advance, questions about the ethics of AI become more pressing than ever. For example, in an emergency situation, should a self-driving car prioritize the lives of the passengers or the lives of pedestrians? Should we as a society allow the use of autonomous weapons? How can we create AI systems that are fair and that do not inadvertently produce biased results? In this talk, I aim to outline some of the key issues in the study of AI ethics, identify some of the core claims that have been made, and propose an ethical framework that can help us guide these discussions.
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 or editor of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press); Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge), and over 70 articles in philosophy and bioethics. He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and CERN, Switzerland, and he has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American, and other media outlets. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy.
Room: Society, Sciences & Technology, 2nd Floor
Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. AI can now recognize objects in images and videos, transcribe speech, translate between languages, beat humans in Jeopardy, at Go and poker, paint in the style of van Gogh, write Beatles-like music, help prepare legal documents, trade stocks, drive cars, fly drones, write its own encryption language, identify cancer in tissues and solve the quantum state of many particles at once. In the coming years, it is all but expected that AI will reach and exceed human performance on many more, and increasingly complex, tasks. As AI technologies continue to advance, questions about the ethics of AI become more pressing than ever. For example, in an emergency situation, should a self-driving car prioritize the lives of the passengers or the lives of pedestrians? Should we as a society allow the use of autonomous weapons? How can we create AI systems that are fair and that do not inadvertently produce biased results? In this talk, I aim to outline some of the key issues in the study of AI ethics, identify some of the core claims that have been made, and propose an ethical framework that can help us guide these discussions.
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 or editor of The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press); Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge), and over 70 articles in philosophy and bioethics. He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and CERN, Switzerland, and he has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American, and other media outlets. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political, and legal philosophy.
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