Beyond Hype: Exploring the Ethical Realities of AI a Curated List

In today’s era of rapid technological advancement, Artificial Intelligence stands at the forefront, offering solutions and raising ethical concerns simultaneously. As AI becomes deeply embedded in our daily lives, understanding its ethical implications becomes paramount.

Here, I’ve curated a collection of recommended resources that delve into the ethical landscapes of AI, shedding light on its moral dilemmas and ethical considerations.

This post will be alive, I plan to update it as I read interesting an insightful Books, Articles Research papers etc.

Note: I will not get in to the details of these literatures, this is just a curated list of stuff I read and plan to read.

Understanding AI Ethics

• Very Comprehensive State of AI Ethics (Yearly)
• The Car That Knew Too Much Can a Machine Be Moral? (2021) - MIT Press
• AI Ethics (2020) - MIT Press
• First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence (2019)
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (2020)
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (2017)
• Trustworthy Machine Learning (2022)
• Fairness-related harms in AI systems: Examples, assessment, and mitigation (2021) - Microsoft Research Youtube
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2020) - Oxford Press
• A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence (2021) - MIT Press
• Aligning AI With Shared Human Values
• Aligning AI With Shared Human Values - Data

Autonomous Weapon Systems

Autonomous Weapon Systems

• Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems:Can Targeting Occur Without Ethical Decision-Making? (2019)
• Ethics and autonomous weapon systems: An ethical basis for human control? (2017)
• Ethical Considerations For The Use Of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (2019)
• The Ethics & Morality of Robotic Warfare: Assessing the Debate over Autonomous Weapons (2016)
• Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War (2018)
• Nice Read from Wikipedia and Good References
  • Lethal autonomous weapon
• Possibly the first time an fully autonomous killer drone armed with lethal weaponry targeted humans (2021)
  • STM Kargu
  • STM Kargu Official Site
  • Military drones may have attacked humans for first time without being instructed to, UN report says
  • CEO of STM disputes tha claims, experts say otherwise
  • UN Document on the Matter - (Ctrl + f and Kargu)

Related Books to Check Out

• Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation (1976)
• Atlas of Ai: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2021)
• The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design (2019)
• Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (2019)
• Moral Machines : Teaching Robots Right from Wrong: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (2008)
• Weapons of Math Destruction (2016)
• Artificial Unintelligence (2018)
• A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond (2020)
• Fairness and Machine Learning
• The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020)

Interesting Sites - Must Check

AI Incident Database

“The AI Incident Database is dedicated to indexing the collective history of harms or near harms realized in the real world by the deployment of artificial intelligence systems.”

AI Incident Database

Moral Machine

“Moral Machine is an online platform, developed by MIT, that generates moral dilemmas and collects information on the decisions that people make between two destructive outcomes. The presented scenarios are often variations of the trolley problem, and the information collected would be used for further research regarding the decisions that machine intelligence must make in the future.”

Moral Machine

Scenario to Judge

Stop Killer Robots

“With growing digital dehumanisation, the Stop Killer Robots coalition works to ensure human control in the use of force. Our campaign calls for new international law on autonomy in weapons systems.”

• Stop Killer Robots

Other Sites

• Stop Killer Robots
• The Global AI Narratives (GAIN) Research Project
• Turkish AI Initiative
• AI for Good
• AI Ethicist
• Ethics of AI Course - University of Helsinki
• Elements of AI - University of Helsinki
• Open Ethics Initiative
• AI Strategy

Autonomous Vehicles

Research Paper

• Ethics of artificial intelligence: moral responsibility of self-driving cars and sex robots - METU (2019)
• Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence (2018)

Short Read and News

• The Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (2023)
• 5 Moral Dilemmas That Self-Driving Cars Face Today (2022)
• Self-Driving Cars and AI Ethics (2023)
• Driverless Cars And AI Ethics (2021)
• With self-driving cars, it’s the ethics we have to navigate (2023)