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Technology Ethics — Should we, because we can?
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Technology Ethics
Should we, because we can?
Asking whether something should be built, not only whether it can be.
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Humans built the atomic bomb before building the rules to govern it. Every generation faces a version of this question. For your generation, the question is about artificial intelligence. The technology is ahead of the ethics. This has happened before. It will happen again.
- Ethical questions do not have clean answers. That is what makes them ethical questions instead of engineering problems.
- When someone builds something new, two questions matter: what can it do, and what should it do?
SourceOppenheimer's reflections on the atomic bomb
Standard technology ethics literature
Standard technology ethics literature
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