5AI, PEACE, AND ETHICSFROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE

DOI: 10.1201/9781003359982-6

In the summer of 2023, one of the big global blockbusters was the film Oppenheimer, which portrays the fraught period during World War II when human beings created the atom bomb. Many in the media—including the filmmaker Christopher Nolan—have compared this historical moment to our current situation with the emergence and rapid growth of AI. Indeed, fears of nuclear proliferation and debates about the potential global nuclear disaster after World War II echo some of today's discussions around the risks of AI. In 1953, US President Dwight Eisenhower proposed a global agreement to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons while also sharing peaceful uses of nuclear technology ...

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