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The Algorithmic Code of Ethics

The Algorithmic Code of Ethics (eBook)

Proposes ethical benchmarks against a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data, as evidenced by the development of AI, Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, and autonomous expert systems.

The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto

The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto (eBook)

Privacy will be an integral part of the next wave in the technology revolution. The authors, a uniquely skilled team of longtime industry experts, detail how you can build privacy into products, processes, applications, and systems

The Big Data Agenda

The Big Data Agenda (eBook)

• Thie capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Richterich draws upon discourse ethics to discuss the use of big data in research and its implications on societal values.

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics

Covers: foundational issues and methodological frameworks; theoretical issues affecting property, privacy, anonymity, and security; professional issues and the information-related professions; responsibility issues and risk assessment; regulatory issues and challenges; access and equity issues.

Nanoethics  ( electronic journal

Nanoethics (eJournal)

Peer reviewed journal with discussion of ethical and social concerns related to new and emerging nanotechnology

Predictive Analytics

Predictive Analytics (eBook)

Perfect prediction is not possible, but putting odds on the future drives millions of decisions more effectively, determining whom to call, mail, investigate, incarcerate, set up on a date, or medicate. This book reveals how predictive analytics (aka machine learning) works, and how it affects everyone every day.

The Ethics of Superintelligent Design

The Ethics of Superintelligent Design (eBook)

Discusses the ethical implications of the current technological revolution and potential for artificial superintelligence while upholding the authority and inerrancy of the Bible, the supernatural creation account, a realistic view of the state of humanity, and biblical ethics.

Ethics and Information Technology (electronic journal)

Ethics and Information Technology (eJournal)

Peer reviewed journal that investigates the interaction between moral philosophy and information technology

Killer Robots

Killer Robots

Explores the technological, legal and ethical issues connected to combat robotics, examining both the opportunities and limitations of autonomous weapons.

Artificial Intelligence

The Machine Question

The Machine Question (eBook)

Examines the "machine question"- whether and to what extent intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making can be considered to have legitimate moral responsibilities and any legitimate claim to moral consideration.

A I Ethics

AI Ethics (eBook)

Describes influential AI narratives, surveys relevant philosophical discussions, explains the technology, offers an overview of important ethical issues and analyzes possible policies to find ethical practices that translate democratic values into practice.

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future

Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future (eBook)

Presents AI as a system of ecosystems, consisting of numerous interdependent technologies, applications and stakeholders and explores how AI ecosystems can be shaped to foster human flourishing

Artificial Intelligence and Global Security

Artificial Intelligence and Global Security

Explores the implications of AI for the individual, for personal identity, for society, and for global security, and it offers diverse perspectives on the consequences of the integration of AI in our daily lives and society.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Explores how machine brains may one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful, and the fate of our species then would come to depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence.

Turning Point: Poliiymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Turning Point: Poliiymaking in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

two experts at Brookings discuss both the opportunities and risks posed by artificial intelligence--and how near-term policy decisions could determine whether the technology leads to utopia or dystopia.

Intersectional Automations

Intersectional Automations

Explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.

Global Bioethics of Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

Global Bioethics of Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

Examines artificial intelligence, the social contract, Thomistic personalism and anthropological, evolutionary biological, political economic challenges to human rights.