AI Ethics

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1. kavaivaleriDec 2023
   Classics

   - Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville

   - The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie

   - Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen

   - The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingo

   Fresh look (books published in 2023)

   - The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

   - The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

   - Understanding Deep Learning by Simon J. D. Prince

   History of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

   - The Turing Guide by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson

   - The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements by Nils. J Nilsson

   - Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence by Pamela McCorduck

   AI and Future Studies

   - The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights Series) by Harvard Business Review, Beena Ammanath, Andrew Ng, Michael Luca, and Bhaskar Ghosh

   - AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan

   - The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher

   AI ethics collection

   - AI: Its nature and future by Margaret Boden

   - AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

   - The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism by Nick Couldry, Ulises Mejias

   - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

   Lastly, a fire-side list of books written completely using AI

   - Aum Golly: Poems on Humanity by an Artificial Intelligence by Jukka Aalho

   - Aum Golly 2: Illustrated Poems on Humanity by Artificial Intelligence by Jukka Aalho

   - 1 the Road by Ross Goodwin

   - The Inner Life of an AI: A Memoir by ChatGPT by Forrest Xiao

   - Bob The Robot: Exploring the Universe - A Cozy Bedtime Story Produced by Artificial Intelligence by Olle Green

   - (Fun!) 50 Ways AI Would End The World: Written by AI by Rob Knott

   Find links and descriptions at https://www.turingpost.com/p/books2023

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2. dalyAug 2024
   Chapter 10 of AI Ethics (ISBN 978-0262538190) catalogs various proposals for design and development of ethical systems.

   Many of these ideas, such as explainable systems, are beyond the reach of any future systems in my opinion. Even people will "make up a rational for things they have done" which has no basis in fact. Asking an AI system to explain would essentially be asking it to hallucinate.

   Given the growing idea of mixture-of-experts, it may be useful to have the community focus on creating an "Ethical Expert" which is included in every mixture-of-expert architecture.

   Even the idea of trying to create such an Ethical Expert (an AI Superego?) is a challenge. Perhaps this is the end goal of Anthropic or Sutskever's Safe SuperIntelligence (https://ssi.inc/). I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall for THOSE discussions :-)

   I spend a lot of time studying the ethics question. I'm curious how such an AI SuperEgo would handle Sissela Bok's book on Lying (ISBN 978-0375705281). Though her book is about Moral, not Ethical, choice it would still be an interesting challenge for an AI SuperEgo.

   (my working definitions:

   Morals: The rules you choose to live by

   Ethics: What you would do if the world knew you did it)

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