Why teaching ethics to AI practitioners is important

Judy Goldsmith, Emanuelle Burton

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Abstract

We argue that it is crucial to the future of AI that our students be trained in multiple complementary modes of ethical reasoning, so that they may make ethical design and implementation choices, ethical career decisions, and that their software will be programmed to take into account the complexities of acting ethically in the world.

Original languageEnglish
Pages4836-4840
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2017
Event31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Feb 4 2017Feb 10 2017

Conference

Conference31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period2/4/172/10/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1646887. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. We thank Nicholas Mattei (our collaborator in the long-term project that informs this paper) and John Fike for helpful discussions.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation (NSF)1646887

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Artificial Intelligence

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