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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
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Legacy
(Hardcover)
Benjamin D Author, Benjamin Freeman
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R568
Discovery Miles 5 680
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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'Oh friends, not these sounds, let us instead strike up ones more
pleasing and more joyful'. Written during the corona of 2020 and
stretching into 2021, the sounds and words of music are here given
a deeper and wider meaning. The words quoted above were Beethoven's
own in the lockdown of his own deafness and just before letting the
chorus loose to proclaim that 'all people become brothers'. The
sounds he refers to are those of despair, exuberance, and utopian
peace that his symphony has just portrayed. For him, and for us,
the Ode is less the vision of an alternative world than an
expression of a constant need to seek a joy which, beyond happiness
and once-in-a-while cheerfulness, is a sense of doing something
worthwhile with and, where possible, for others.
The technology of Artificial Intelligence is here, and moving fast,
without ethical standards in place. A Blueprint for the Regulation
of Artificial Intelligence Technologies leans on classical western
philosophy for its ethical grounding. Values such as conscience,
rights, equity, and discrimination, establish a basis for
regulatory standards. Multiple international agencies with
governing interests are compared. The development of ethical
standards is suggested through two new non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). The first is to develop standards that evolve
from practice, while the second acts as an ombudsman to settle
abuse. Both NGOs are envisioned to cooperate with regulators. More
than seeking a perfect solution, the book aims to balance the
tension between conflicting interests, with the goal to keep this
dangerously wonderful technology under global human control. For
that to materialize, the technology needs to have a seat on the
table of global ethics. The final chapter lists fourteen thinking
points to achieve an ethics balance for new technologies.
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