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R. AshriThe AI-Powered Workplacehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5476-9_12

12. The Ethics of AI-Powered Applications

Ronald Ashri1 
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Ragusa, Italy
 

Why do we need to talk about ethics in the context of AI-powered applications? Isn’t it just like any other piece of software or any other machine? Aren’t the rules that are already in place enough to cover us? Is this about machines taking over the world!?

Let’s start with the last question. No, this is not about machines taking over the world. There are, undoubtedly, hugely interesting ethical considerations that we will have to tackle if and when we get to the point of having machines that act autonomously with artificial general intelligence. However, as we already discussed ...

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