See below an excerpt from Dr. Roman Yampolskiy's Chapter:
"It is possible to rely on current corporate law to grant legal personhood to artificially intelligent (AI) agents. Such legal maneuvering may be useful to avoid human responsibility or to further automate businesses."
Interview with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy About The Threat Of Advanced AI
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist at the University of Louisville where he is the director of the Cyber Security Laboratory in the department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science. He is an author of over 100 publications including numerous books.
Machines and computers are becoming increasingly sophisticated and self-sustaining. As we integrate such technologies into our daily lives, questions concerning moral integrity and best practices arise. A changing world requires renegotiating our current set of standards. Without best practices to guide interaction and use with these complex machines, interaction with them will turn disastrous.
Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a collection of innovative research that presents holistic and transdisciplinary approaches to the field of machine ethics and morality and offers up-to-date and state-of-the-art perspectives on the advancement of definitions, terms, policies, philosophies, and relevant determinants related to human-machine ethics. The book encompasses theory and practice sections for each topical component of important areas of human-machine ethics both in existence today and prospective for the future. While highlighting a broad range of topics including facial recognition, health and medicine, and privacy and security, this book is ideally designed for ethicists, philosophers, scientists, lawyers, politicians, government lawmakers, researchers, academicians, and students. It is of special interest to decision- and policy-makers concerned with the identification and adoption of human-machine ethics initiatives, leading to needed policy adoption and reform for human-machine entities, their technologies, and their societal and legal obligations.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Design and Regulation
- Drones
- Engineering Ethics
- Facial Recognition
- Health and Medicine
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Privacy and Security
- Societal Impact
About the Editor
Steven John Thompson is a new media theorist-practitioner and enalyst in technology ethics, iconetics, media informatics, and Internet phenomena. Dr. Thompson teaches at University of California, Davis and University of Maryland Global Campus. He has taught at Johns Hopkins University, Dartmouth College, and Clemson University, among others. He was Editor of Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies, published by IGI Global in 2014 and Androids, Cyborgs, and Robots in Contemporary Culture and Society published by IGI Global in 2018. He is on the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ journal in Emerging Technologies, Ethical Issues, Human-Computer Interaction, Science Policy, and World Wide Web & Web Science subject areas. Dr. Thompson published pioneering quantitative research on Internet addiction and dependency in 1996, and presented his iconics theory on agency of terrorism images as virtual subscripts of artificial intelligence at University of Basel in 2009. He was plenary closing academic panel discussant at UNESCO’s First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy in Fez, Morocco in 2011. His research has been presented in over a dozen countries across four continents. He holds a PhD in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University; an MS in Media Arts and Science from Indiana University; a BA in Media Studies with Honors, a BA in Integrative Arts with a focus in New Media, and an AA in Letters, Arts & Sciences, from Penn State.
About IGI Global
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