Despite the surge in research on ethical risks of artificial intelligence (AI) of the past few years, there is still a clear need for methodologies and practical strategies to assess ethical risks of AI applications. Especially identifying normative issues related to voluntariness, justice and power imbalances remains a challenge. The current article proposes a supplementary assessment method...
There is a hole in the standard argument to the conclusion that AI constitutes an existential risk for the human species – even if its two premises are true: (1) AI may reach superintelligent levels, at which point we humans lose control (the ‘singularity claim’); (2) Any level of intelligence can go along with any goal (the ‘orthogonality thesis’). We find that the singularity claim uses a...
The promptness with which new technologies have been deployed in the last few years raises particular ethical issues. In the case of the Artificial Intelligence (AI), various reports and guidelines have been developed by governmental and non-governmental institutions reflecting on ethical principles, requirements and best practices for when the technology is developed and used. As the European...
