AI ethics on Thursday, 4 October 2018

It might be thought that Human-Machine Communication (HMC) and ethics have little, if anything to do with one another. To be sure, those engaged in the more technical sides of HMC—ICT designers, software engineers, roboticists, and so on—are at least nominally beholden to the ethics codes and guidelines of their specific professional organizations (e.g., ACM, 1992). But more broadly, ethics and technology have largely been kept separate—until relatively recently. In Part I, I explore these backg