Chapter 10New Frontiers for Ethical Considerations: Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality

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Artificial Intelligence

AI – is a field of learning that emulates human intelligence

Advances in human intelligence:

Machine intelligence has led to Robotics

Space exploration

Medicine

Advanced research

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Intelligent Agents

Personal assistants

Meeting scheduling

Email handling

Filtering

Entertainmemnt

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Weizerburm Theory4

“it is immoral to use a computer system to replace human functions involving interpersonal respect, understanding and love”

Question

Will human beings let intelligent “creatures” keep on getting more and more intelligent even thought they are aware the ultimate end result would be to surpass human intelligence?

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Question

How much power and autonomy should we give these creatures, and will these agents eventually take away human autonomy and consequently take control of human destiny?

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Two School of Thought

All AI activities are research gone wrong or “mad scientist”

AI is very beneficial to humanity

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Artificial Intelligence…

Limitations of AI:

Lack of credible science safeguards

Fear of a superhuman

Abdication of individual responsibilities

AI and ethics:

AI agents and user responsibilities

User accountability

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Cyberspace

The Internet:

Opened up new frontiers in almost all spheres of human life

The WWW revolutionarized indexing and delivery of information

E-commerce transformed global economies, changed lives.

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Virtual Reality

VR – is a stimulation of a real or imaginary phenomena in three-dimensional environments

Is revolutionalizing the study of science Ethics in Virtual Reality:

Lack of being in control Safety and security of users Human-agent interactions Intentions of the actor Accountability of the actor Responsibility of the actor Psychological effects on the actor and commnity

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