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 IntelligencePart I: Building Ethics Into Machines 1. Machine Morality: Building or Learning2. The Use and Abuse of the Trolley Problem: Self Driving Cars, Innocent Threats, and the Distribution of Harm3. The Moral Psychology of AI and the Ethical Opt-Out Problem4. Modeling and Reasoning with Preferences and Ethical Priorities in AI Systems5. Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI ConstitutionPart II: The Near Future of Artificial Intelligence 6. Planning for Mass Unemployment: Precautionary Basic Income7. Autonomous Weapons and the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence8. Near Term Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Matrix9. The Ethics of Artificial SexualityPart III: Long-Term Impact of Superintelligence10. Public Policy and Superintelligent AI: A Vector Field Approach11. Artificial Intelligence: A Binary Approach12. Alignment for Advanced Machine Learning Systems13. Moral Machines: From Value Alignment to Embodied Virtue14. Machine Learning ValuesPart IV: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and Moral Status15. How to Catch an AI Zombie: Testing for Consciousness in Machines16. Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom17. The Moral Status and Rights of Artificial IntelligenceIndex