Episode 30: Derek Leben on Ethics for Robots and Artificial Intelligences




Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas show

Summary: Once we leave the highly constrained sphere of artificial games and enter the real world of human actions, our artificial intelligences are going to have to make choices about the best course of action in unclear circumstances: they will have to learn to be ethical. I talk to Derek Leben about what this might mean and what kind of ethics our computers should be taught. It’s a wide-ranging discussion involving computer science, philosophy, economics, and game theory.