RubyConf 2018 - Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine Ethics by Eric Weinstein
Channel: Confreaks
Date: 2018-11-28

RubyConf 2018 - Being Good: An Introduction to Robo- and Machine Ethics by Eric Weinstein

Machines are all around us: recommending our TV shows, planning our car trips, and running our day-to-day lives via AI assistants like Siri and Alexa. We know humans should act ethically, but what does that mean when building computer systems? Are machines themselves—autonomous vehicles, neural networks that diagnose cancer, algorithms that identify trends in police data—capable of ethical behavior? In this talk, we'll examine the implications of artificial moral agents and their relationships with the humans who build them through the lens of multiple case studies.