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AI Ethics

MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

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AI Ethics

By: Mark Coeckelbergh
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
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Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an accessible synthesis of these issues.

Mark Coeckelbergh describes influential AI narratives, ranging from Frankenstein's monster to transhumanism and the technological singularity. He surveys relevant philosophical discussions: questions about the fundamental differences between humans and machines and debates over the moral status of AI. He explains the technology of AI, describing different approaches and focusing on machine learning and data science. He offers an overview of important ethical issues, including privacy concerns, responsibility and the delegation of decision making, transparency, and bias as it arises at all stages of data science processes. He also considers the future of work in an AI economy. Finally, he analyzes a range of policy proposals and discusses challenges for policymakers.

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This book has helped me understand better the Ethical side of AI. I was aware of some aspects but this book has added many more questions. Highly recommended.

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Recommend it anyone technical already and further trying to learn more about AI Ethics. It has a lot of useful reference

Succinct yet informative

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for such a huge topic, this book lurches far too quickly into an opinionated discourse that's superficial and unsubstantiated, making any content here opinion, heresy, and therefore useless and makes this look like a cash grab on a hot topic

dangerously poorly substantiated

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The narrator just drones on and on like a 1960s tv commercial with no variation in his tone, making the already lacking book even more of a pain to get through. The book itself is written from a pessimistic point of view while trying to present only surface level facts about Artificial Intelligence, with no very little research done on the topic, and as such, offering little to no insight. I regret enduring more than an hour of it to see if it goes somewhere meaningful. it never does. 1/10. I definitely wouldn't recommend.

Poorly written and even more poorly executed

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