Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
I conclude the book with a look toward the future. As machines become increasingly autonomous, there is concern in popular literature and media that they will someday take over. What if our autonomous vehicles start deciding where we should go? Worse, there is talk of a “singularity” in technological development, at which point machines will start designing themselves and create superintelligence.* Do we want such machines to be autonomous?
Much of this apprehension is due to a popular understanding of an autonomous machine as a machine that is “out of control,” like a bull on the rampage. We have seen in preceding chapters, however, that there is a deeper sense of autonomy that is not nearly so threatening, ...
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