Moral AI : And How We Get There

A balanced and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics Can computers understand morality?Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair? The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals - and AI's presence in our lives will only increase.Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation and ease; others are alarmed by its destructive potential.But one thing is clear: this is a technology like no other, one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality. In Moral AI, world-renowned researchers in moral psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence - Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer - tackle these thorny issues head-on.Writing lucidly and calmly, they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field, peeling away the exaggeratio