How Will AI Change Ethics? - With Pedro Domingos

The Salem Center as we welcome Pedro Domingos to discuss AI. The ethical issues surrounding AI have received a lot of attention lately, but unfortunately it’s all been about shoehorning AI into current Western ethical norms. But AI will dramatically change society and therefore ethics, as did previous technological revolutions (e.g., printing, the pill). This talk will examine how AI might change our views of what’s ethical and what’s not, and how we can prepare for it. Areas covered will include privacy and data sharing, fairness and equality, work and life, self-driving machines and trolleyology, war and intelligent weapons, democracy vs. authoritarianism, social media, and what distinguishes us from machines. Possible approaches to AI’s ethical impacts take inspiration from Buckley, Kay and Marx.