Module 1: Current Events

Module 1: Current Events

1. Purpose

   • summarize
   • explain ethical issue
     • Artificial Intelligence
       • Foe
         • Elon Musk, "a fundamental risk to the human existence"
         • Stephen Hawkings: "the worst even in human cilvil...."
         • 73% of consumer respondants prefer limits
         • “Data is the currency AI is built on, and it’s worth something. So maybe think twice before you give it away.”
         • “Biases can live in this data collection that represent the worst in society,” Horvitz says.
       • Friend
         • Mark Zuckerber: "pretty irresponsible" about the negative talk
         • Steve Wozinak, "we may have machines that stimulate intelligence, but that's different from truly replicating how the brain works"
         • U.S. researchers and scientists have no choice but to push forward with AI developments because inaction is not an alternative
         • Wozniak. “If we don’t understand things like where memories are stored, what’s the point of worrying about when the Singularity is going to take over and run everything?”
       • Neutral
         • “We’re all full of hopes and fears when it comes to long term potential of AI,” he says. “We need to channel that in a constructive way.”
         • “There are certainly high stakes in terms of how AI impacts transportation, health care and other significant sectors, and there need to be channels to check for failures,” says Horvitz.
   • relation to a ethical theory, principle or conecept
     • Consequentialist