Ethics of AI

Literature and resources

Literature on the ethics of artificial intelligence

Note: Publications are generally listed in reverse chronological order, not in order of quality or relevance.

* = "Marcus recommends"

Some publications focus on one specific topic or theme. Some of these are indicated as follows:

⚖︎ Legal jurisprudence and regulation of AI;
⚔︎ Military AI, lethal autonomous weapons;
⚛︎ Superintelligence, singularity, existential risks;
⚘ Social robotics, robot caregivers, robot companions.

The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, edited by Justin Bullock, Yu-Che Chen, Johannes Himmelreich, Valerie Hudson, Anton Korinek, Matthew Young, and Baobao Zhang, 2022-.
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, edited by Carissa Véliz, 2021-. [Only some chapters are relevant.]
* Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, edited by S. Matthew Liao, 2020.
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, edited by Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das, 2020. [Oxford UP website]
⚛︎ Artificial Superintelligence: Coordination & Strategy, edited by Roman V. Yampolskiy and Allison Duettmann, 2020 (open access).
* Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI, edited by John Brockman, 2019.
* Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security, edited by Roman V. Yampolskiy, 2018.
⚔︎ Perspectives on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, by United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2017 (open access).
⚛︎ The Singularity: Could artificial intelligence really out-think us? edited by Uziel Awret, 2016.
Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics, edited by by Wendell Wallach and Peter Asaro, 2016.
⚖︎ Robot Law, edited by Ryan A Calo, Michael Froomkin, and Ian Kerr, 2016.
Risks of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Vincent C. Müller, 2016.
Fundamental Issues of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Vincent C. Müller, 2016.
Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Vincent C. Müller, 2013.
Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics, edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey, 2012.
Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence, edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, and Ryan Jenkins, 2017.
Robo- and Informationethics: Some Fundamentals, edited by Michael Decker and Mathias Gutmann, 2012.
* Machine Ethics, edited by Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson, 2011.
⚘ Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical and Design Issues, edited by Yorick Wilks, 2010.
Ethics and Robotics, edited by Rafael Capurro and Michael Nagenborg, 2009.
Machine Ethics: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium (Technical Report FS-05-06), edited by Michael Anderson, Susan Leigh Anderson, and Chris Armen, 2005 (open access).

An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI, by Christoph Bartneck, Christoph Lütge, Alan Wagner and Sean Welsh, 2021 (open access).
A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, by John Zerilli, with John Danaher, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan, and Alistair Knott, 2021.
AI Ethics, by Mark Coeckelbergh, 2020.
* The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values, by Brian Christian, 2020.
The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI, by Michael Wooldridge, 2020.
⚛︎ The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World, by Tom Chivers, 2019.
⚖︎ Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence, by Paula Boddington, 2017.
Roboethics: A Navigating Overview, by Spyros G. Tzafestas, 2016.
*⚛︎ The Technological Singularity, by Murray Shanahan, 2015.

[These are not suitable as an academic references for your term paper. But they may be a good starting point for your research.]

[These are not suitable as an academic references for your term paper. But they may be a good starting point for your research.]

[These are not suitable as an academic references for your term paper. But they may be a good starting point for your research.]

[These are not suitable as an academic references for your term paper. But they may be a good starting point for your research.]

⚔︎ Yorick Wilks: AI Weapons, War and Ethics (a public lecture at Gresham College, 2019; 45 minutes)
⚔︎ Sophy Antrobus: How Are Drones Changing Warfare? (a public lecture at Gresham College, 2020; 45 minutes. Note: only the part on autonomous drones is relevant to this course.)
Raghavendra Rau: The Risks of Technology in Business (a public lecture at Gresham College, forthcoming, June 2023)
⚛︎ Myths and Realities of Superintelligence (a video by the Future of Life Institute, 2017; 4 minutes)
⚛︎ Superintelligence: Science or Fiction? (a video by the Future of Life Institute, 2017; 60 minutes)

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