A new book by CFI’s Dr Maya Indira Ganesh offers an in-depth examination of the cultural and ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence, with a focus on autonomous systems like driverless cars.
The book explores how and if ethics can be integrated into driverless cars and examines the infamous trolley problem – an ethical dilemma once proposed to inform how driverless cars might make decisions in life-threatening situations. Auto-Correct examines the limits of ethical decision-making being automated, and the implications of ‘machine ethics’, a niche yet popular approach to programming computational decision-making, for our understanding of responsibility and values in the present and future worlds with AI.
The book is a study of the cultural and material politics of automation, and the role of language and discourse in advancing the compelling fiction of ethical, autonomous, and intelligent machines. This is not only a philosophical work but also offers insights into the future development of autonomous technologies and the ethical frameworks that will play a role in their evolution.
The book can be purchased here: AUTO-CORRECT – ArtEZPress