Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI by Toby Walsh

Author:Toby Walsh [Walsh, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Technology & Engineering, Robotics, Political Science, Public Policy, Science & Technology Policy, Social Science, Sociology, General, Computers, Artificial intelligence, Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects
ISBN: 9781743822333
Google: QkZPEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2022-05-03T20:59:23+00:00

THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME

If a focus on human rights isn’t the best approach, what is? Perhaps history can provide some more clues. Artificial intelligence isn’t the first technology to touch our lives, and every other technology we’ve invented has introduced ethical challenges. Take, for example, the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the fifteenth century. This was undoubtably one of the most transformative technologies of the last 500 years. And yet, as Mark Twain wrote in 1900, not everything it brought has been for the betterment of humankind:

All the world acknowledges that the invention of Gutenberg is the greatest event that secular history has recorded.

Gutenberg’s achievement created a new and wonderful earth, but at the same time also a new hell. During the past 500 years Gutenberg’s invention has supplied both earth and hell with new occurrences, new wonders and new phases.

It found truth astir on earth and gave it wings; but untruth also was abroad, and it was supplied with a double pair of wings.

Science was found lurking in corners, much prosecuted; Gutenberg’s invention gave it freedom on land and sea and brought it within reach of every mortal.

Arts and industries, badly handicapped, received new life. Religion, which, during the Middle Ages, assumed tyrannical sway, was transformed into a friend and benefactor of mankind.

On the other hand, war, which was conducted on a comparatively small scale, became almost universal through this agency. Gutenberg’s invention, while having given to some national freedom, brought slavery to others.

It became the founder and protector of human liberty, and yet it made despotism possible where formerly it was impossible.

What the world is to-day, good and bad, it owes to Gutenberg. Everything can be traced to this source, but we are bound to bring him homage, for what he said in dreams to the angered angel has been literally fulfilled, for the bad that his colossal invention has brought about is overshadowed a thousand times by the good with which mankind has been favored.18

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