Artificial Intelligence
Power to the People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12160116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather M Roff (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 02 |
| Pages | 127-140 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-6794 • E-ISSN: 1747-7093 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0892679419000121 |
| OpenAlex | W3015946163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
To adequately estimate the beneficial and harmful effects of artificial intelligence (AI), we must first have a clear understanding of what AI is and what it is not. We need to draw important conceptual and definitional boundaries to ensure we accurately estimate and measure the impacts of AI from both empirical and normative standpoints. This essay argues that we should not conflate AI with automation or autonomy but keep them conceptually separate. Moreover, it suggests that once we have a broad understanding of what constitutes AI, we will see that it can be applied to all sectors of the economy and in warfare. However, it cautions that we must be careful where we apply AI, for in some cases there are serious epistemological concerns about whether we have an appropriate level of knowledge to create such systems. Opening the aperture to include such questions allows us to further see that while AI systems will be deployed in a myriad of forms, with greater or lesser cognitive abilities, these systems ought never to be considered moral agents. They cannot possess rights, and they do not have any duties
Automation · Autonomy · Cognition · Cognitive science · Conflation · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Engineering · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Artificial Intelligence
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |