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Ethics of ar­tifi­cial intelligence

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The ethics of artificial intelligence is the study of the ethical issues arising from the creation of artificial intelligence.

Further reading

Bostrom, Nick & Eliezer Yudkowsky (2014) The ethics of artificial intelligence, in Keith Frankish & William M. Ramsey (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 316–334.

Dubber, Markus D., Frank Pasquale & Sunit Das (eds.) (2020) The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Müller, Vincent C. (2020) Ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, April 30.

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