Researchers have claimed that computer science courses should include science fiction, to foster a sense of ethics in the future creators of artificial intelligence. Which books should be on the reading list?
What can be done to ensure that the development of artificial intelligence doesn’t become too dangerous for humanity’s own good – in other words, that the machines we create don’t outsmart us? The perils of artificial intelligence have been well debated in reality and fiction, and now a group of scientists at NICTA, Australia’s national research centre for Information Comunications Technology, say it all comes down to computer scientists reading the right books.
“The cultural and political implications of modern AI research are not some far off concern, they are things that affect the world in the here and now,” according to the paper Teaching AI Ethics Using Science Fiction, which argues that key science fiction works should be included in computer science courses.
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