The Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Humans and Human Rights. Issue 2 (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Livingston, Steven; Risse, Mathias
• Is Part Of: Ethics & international affairs. Volume 33:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 141
• Page End: 158
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: artificial intelligence, -- machine learning, -- deep learning, -- reinforcement learning, -- superintelligence, -- artificial general intelligence, -- ethical impact agents, -- implicit ethical agents, -- categorical imperative, -- human rights; International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; 172.405
• DOI: 10.1017/S089267941900011X
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0892-6794

Abstract

Abstract: What are the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on human rights in the next three decades? Precise answers to this question are made difficult by the rapid rate of innovation in AI research and by the effects of human practices on the adaption of new technologies. Precise answers are also challenged by imprecise usages of the term "AI." There are several types of research that all fall under this general term. We begin by clarifying what we mean by AI. Most of our attention is then focused on the implications of artificial general intelligence (AGI), which entail that an algorithm or group of algorithms will achieve something like superintelligence. While acknowledging that the feasibility of superintelligence is contested, we consider the moral and ethical implications of such a potential development. What do machines owe humans and what do humans owe superintelligent machines?