1st Edition
Considerations on the AI Endgame Ethics, Risks and Computational Frameworks
Preface
Introduction
1. Towards AI welfare science and policies
2. Do no harm policy for minds in other substrates
3. Introducing the concept of ikigai to the ethics of AI and of human enhancements
4. Mapping the potential AI-driven virtual hyper-personalised ikigai universe
5. Towards the mathematics of intelligence
6. Designometry: Formalization of artifacts and methods
7. Preservation of personal identity: A survey of technological and philosophical scenarios
8. The problem of AI identity
9. Potential synergies between the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the AI value loading problem
10. The neglect of qualia and consciousness in AI alignment research
11. An AI may establish a religion
12. Stimuli from selected non-Western approaches to AI ethics
Appendix A. Potential future ikigai: To support needy digital minds
Appendix B. AI welfare science tool: Time use research
Epilogue
Biography
Dr. Soenke Ziesche holds a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Hamburg, which he received within a doctoral program in AI. He has worked since 2000 for the United Nations in the humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development fields as well as in data and information management. He is currently a consultant, mostly for the UN, for AI as well as for disaster information management and is based in Brooklyn, USA.
Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of the Cyber Security Lab and an author of many books, including AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable. Dr. Yampolskiy’s main area of interest is artificial intelligence safety and security.
