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Human/Machine
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Human/Machine

by Daniel Newman, Olivier Blanchard
July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
5h 50m
English
Kogan Page
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CHAPTER EIGHT

How technology companies should prepare for the next age of human–machine partnerships

Asking the right questions: do technology companies have a duty to minimize harm in the pursuit of progress?

We now come to a crossroads in our discussion, where practical considerations intersect with philosophical ones. As if the tug-of-war between the boundless opportunities and the innate risks of building a world in which AI and smart automation increasingly take over tasks weren’t complicated enough, we now introduce questions of moral responsibility into the equation. This is not an abstraction. It is not a trivial question. As technology companies drive this future by imagining it, designing it, building it, shaping it and profiting ...

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