The Ethics of Defining Artificial Intelligence

Sven Nyholm (Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich) will give an online talk on “The Ethics of Defining Artificial Intelligence” on September 9 at 10 AM (UTC+1).

Abstract

The history of the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) has partly been a history of evolving definitions of what AI is or should be defined as being. In my presentation, I will reflect on this observation partly with an eye to the normative question of what definition of AI might be the best or right definition to use and partly with an eye to the meta-normative question of whether it really matters — and if so, why — how we define AI. In addition to briefly reviewing some classic definitions of AI, I will focus on and critically discuss a couple of recent suggested AI definitions by Stuart Russell and Luciano Floridi as two case studies. My own suggestion will be that the ethics of AI as a field benefits most from having a broad and inclusive definition of what qualifies as artificial intelligence.

To join the session on Zoom, use this link (password: 613907).

This event is organized by Adriana Placani. Adriana Placani’s work is financed by national funds through FCT — Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the Scientific Employment Stimulus — Individual Call — 2021.02135.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0035 with DOI identifier 10.54499/2021.02135.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0035 (https://doi.org/10.54499/2021.02135.CEECIND/CP1657/CT0035).