The Ethics of AI and Robotics
A Buddhist Viewpoint
Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9731-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-9731-9 (ISBN)
This book presents a Buddhism-inspired contribution to the ethics of AI and robotics, and the idea that a possible norm for technology must be guided by the standard of "machine enlightenment" informed by a combination of ethical and technical excellences.
Artificial intelligence is the most discussed and arguably the most powerful technology in the world today. The very rapid development of the technology, and its power to change the world, and perhaps even ourselves, calls for a serious and systematic thinking about its ethical and social implications, as well as how its development should be directed. The present book offers a new perspective on how such a direction should take place, based on insights obtained from the age-old tradition of Buddhist teaching. The book argues that any kind of ethical guidelines for AI and robotics must combine two kinds of excellence together, namely the technical and the ethical. The machine needs to aspire toward the status of ethical perfection, whose idea was laid out in detail by the Buddha more than two millennia ago. It is this standard of ethical perfection, called “machine enlightenment,” that gives us a view toward how an effective ethical guideline should be made. This ideal is characterized by the realization that all things are interdependent, and by the commitment to alleviate all beings from suffering, in other words by two of the quintessential Buddhist values. The book thus contributes to a concern for a norm for ethical guidelines for AI that is both practical and cross-cultural.
Artificial intelligence is the most discussed and arguably the most powerful technology in the world today. The very rapid development of the technology, and its power to change the world, and perhaps even ourselves, calls for a serious and systematic thinking about its ethical and social implications, as well as how its development should be directed. The present book offers a new perspective on how such a direction should take place, based on insights obtained from the age-old tradition of Buddhist teaching. The book argues that any kind of ethical guidelines for AI and robotics must combine two kinds of excellence together, namely the technical and the ethical. The machine needs to aspire toward the status of ethical perfection, whose idea was laid out in detail by the Buddha more than two millennia ago. It is this standard of ethical perfection, called “machine enlightenment,” that gives us a view toward how an effective ethical guideline should be made. This ideal is characterized by the realization that all things are interdependent, and by the commitment to alleviate all beings from suffering, in other words by two of the quintessential Buddhist values. The book thus contributes to a concern for a norm for ethical guidelines for AI that is both practical and cross-cultural.
Soraj Hongladarom is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics of Science and Technology at Chulalongkorn University.
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
CHAPTER TWO: A Buddhist View on Nature and Personhood
CHAPTER THREE: Can Robots Be Persons?
CHAPTER FOUR: Machine Enlightenment
CHAPTER FIVE: Autonomous Technology
CHAPTER SIX: Privacy, Machine Learning, and Big Data Analytics
CHAPTER SEVEN: AI for Social Justice and Equality
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 219 mm |
| Gewicht | 358 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-9731-9 / 1498597319 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-9731-9 / 9781498597319 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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