Potential deployments of AI and intelligent robots raise ethical questions about the impacts they may have on human well-being, just like other powerful tools or technologies such as nuclear power or genetic engineering.
Unlike other technologies, intelligent robots and other AIs have the potential to act, and to be considered, as members of our society. Since they will make their own decisions about the actions they take, it is appropriate for humans to expect them to behave ethically. This requires AI research with the goal of understanding the structure, content, and purpose of ethical knowledge, well enough to implement ethics in artificial agents.
Read these four papers.
The 2022 paper below, Trust and Cooperation, goes into depth on the key role of trust in the relationship between the individual and society.
Benjamin Kuipers.
AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation.
Communications of the ACM 66(8): 39-42, August 2023.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Trust and Cooperation.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9:676767, 2022.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Perspectives on Ethics of AI: Computer Science.
In Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (Eds.),
Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI,
Oxford University Press, 2020.
Benjamin Kuipers.
How can we trust a robot?
Communications of the ACM, 61(3): 86-95, March 2018.
Benjamin Kuipers.
AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation.
Communications of the ACM 66(8): 39-42, August 2023.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Trust and Cooperation.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9:676767, 2022.
Philip Koopman, Benjamin Kuipers, William H. Widen & Marilyn Wolf.
Ethics, Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles.
IEEE Computer, December 2021.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Perspectives on Ethics of AI: Computer Science.
In Markus Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (Eds.),
Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI,
Oxford University Press, 2020.
Benjamin Kuipers.
How can we trust a robot?
Communications of the ACM, 61(3): 86-95, March 2018.
Collin Johnson and Benjamin Kuipers.
Socially-aware navigation using topological maps and social norm learning.
AAAI/ACM Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2018.
Emanuella Burton, Judy Goldsmith, Sven Koenig, Benjamin Kuipers, Nicholas Mattei, Toby Walsh.
Ethical considerations in artificial intelligence courses.
AI Magazine, Summer 2017.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Why and how should robots behave ethically?
RoboPhilosophy 2016 // TRANSOR 2016, Aarhus, Denmark.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Human-like morality and ethics for robots.
AAAI-16 Workshop on AI, Ethics & Society, 2016.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Toward morality and ethics for robots.
AAAI Spring Symposium on Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents (EMCAI 2016), 2016.
Benjamin Kuipers. An existing, ecologically-successful genus of collectively intelligent artificial creatures. Collective Intelligence (CI-2012), 2012.
Benjamin Kuipers,
Why don't I take military funding?
Personal statement, 2004.
Benjamin Kuipers.
Reactions to Weizenbaum's Book.
(Review of Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1975.)
SIGART Newsletter, No. 58, June 1976.
I have taught Ethics for AI and Robotics from Winter 2018 to Winter 2024. Since I retired, Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly teaches her version of this course.
My course pages still include lots of relevant information in the lecture schedule and assigned readings.