The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

undergraduate thesis

• Author: Arne Škovrlj
• Mentor: Mario Spremić (mentor)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Economics and Business; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2019-09-17, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is idea that machines could think, feel and perform tasks like humans. That
idea is not new; it has been around for thousands of years. Even the ancient Greek Aristotle had
the idea of ―dualism‖. The first appearance of the word Artificial Intelligence was by John
McCarthy the ―father of Artificial Intelligence‖ at a conference at Dartmouth College. Over the
years Artificial Intelligence grows, technologically advanced and with that AI got more attention
and investments from governments which increased already fast development of that new
technology. But with all that is happening the people started to ask ethical questions regarding
AI. People understood that AI is becoming their reality, but at the time they didn‘t understand
what AI is and what people don‘t understand is what they fear. So the new branch of AI started to
develop the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Ethic by definition is moral principles governing the
behavior or actions of an individual or a group. But one definition is not enough to define ethics
in different cultures see ethics in different ways. With development of more intelligent robots
which were destined to replace people, people felt frighten because one thing that keeps humans
on top of food chain is our intelligent but what if someone or something is smarter than us? So
the moral codes were created, codes that would stop robots to turn against us codes that would
tell robots how to behave. But even with all that codes Singularity would overthrow it.
Singularity is idea that AI would understand its design at such an extent that it could redesign
itself overwrite all codes and create new ones. That is called the Artificial Super Intelligence or
(ASI).

• Keywords: ethics; artificial intelligence
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:148:462178
• Study programme: Title: Business Economics in English; Study programme type: university; Study level: undergraduate; Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/ prvostupnica(baccalaureus/ baccalaurea) ekonomije (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/ prvostupnica(baccalaureus/ baccalaurea) ekonomije)
• Type of resource: Text
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• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2019-09-23 18:38:02