Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 1 Module 10: New Frontiers for Computer Ethics: Artificial Intelligence Introduction Artificial Intelligence

Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 2 Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyberspace (CP), and virtual reality are all opening up new frontiers Creating new possibilities

Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 3 Artificial Intelligence AI – is a field of learning that emulates human 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

Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 4 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

The Future Role of Autonomous Agents AI has made impressive progress in manufacturing, consumer products, finance, management, and medicine. Advances have also been made in knowledge engineering systems, perception, human language understanding, fuzzy systems, and modeling of the brain and evolution [10]. The current success stories in AI are in areas such as machine vision, speech understanding, and knowledge processing do not incorporate common sense, thus progress in AI research as a realization of human intelligence has been dismal at best. However, the future of AI is going to remain controversial. Two schools of thought have been forming according to what is perceived as good or bad about AI’s contribution to humanity. –In one school are those who take a dark view of AI contributions, labeling all AI activities as research gone wrong, “mad scientist” research in the spirit of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. They list a litany of concerns: Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 5

In contrast to these naysayers, the other school see the future of AI as very beneficial to humanity. –They see a fruitful partnership with the agents in which the agents are relieving us of all our dangerous and tedious tasks, making our lives a little easier and helping us reach our ultimate goal of the good life. Ethical and Social...J.M.Kizza 6