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Articles related to artificial intelligence
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Robots remain a law unto themselves, with legal frontiers including issues such as liability, copyright and even the taxing of robots much like the human workers they are replacing. |
How can we program autonomous vehicles to make life-or-death decisions when our own moral values vary according to factors such as age, gender, socioeconomic status and culture? |
Tomorrow’s software will compute with meaning and be much more autonomous. But a thought experiment with a chess robot shows that we will also need to carefully include human values. |
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Directions:
Risky Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Machine learning is intrinsically biased, but what can be done about it?
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Expert Opinion:
Who to kill? The dilemma of driverless cars
Driverless cars hold the promise of safer transport. But how should they react when loss of life appears inevitable? Should a car swerve to miss a pedestrian on the road, even if doing so would kill the passenger? |
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Quandary:
What If Computers Have Feelings, Too?
If software becomes intelligent, what are the ethics of creating, modifying and deleting it from our hard drives? |
Quandary:
Global Catastrophic Risk
A report calculates that we’re more likely to die in an extinction event than in a car crash. |
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Quandary:
Masters or Slaves of AI?
If neural lacing enables our brains to be networked, we could easily be hacked or become the tools of Google or government. |
Up Front:
AI Faces Its Manhattan Project Moment
Researchers are boycotting a major university that is opening an autonomous weapons lab in collaboration with an arms company. |
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Online Feature:
Smart bots out-game human hunters
Increasingly, those who venture into any computer-driven environment will experience a diminishing ability to tell if they are dealing with another human being, or with an artifice constructed from machine code. |
Online Feature: The disruptive technologies that will shape business in the years ahead |
