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Humans are creating artificial intelligence.
Machines and systems that use AI are already making decisions that affect our lives in important ways.
So how do we build ethics into machines?
And might we learn something about ethics from AI?
Peter Ailton is a philosopher at the University of Michigan.
Peter Ailton, welcome to philosophy Bytes.
Thank you very much.
Very glad to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is AI and ethics.
I'm not actually sure about ethics, but let's get clear about AI first.
What are we talking about?
AI is a very general term.
Well, first thing for me to say is I'm not an expert on AI.
I'm a philosopher who's worked in moral philosophy and who believes that there are many ethical challenges raised by AI and that they're coming onto us much quicker than we expected they would.
And so it's important, I think, for philosophers who aren't expert in AI to try to do what we can to scramble.