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This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
An autonomous system is a software agent capable of performing what appear to be actions, with what appears to be a significant degree of independence and autonomy. Autonomous systems, at least at present, are not genuine moral agents: they do not themselves have moral obligations or permissions. But the programming of an autonomous system is uncontroversially subject to moral evaluation. This talk will consider the general question whether the morality of programming an autonomous system to behave in a certain way in a certain situation is reducible to the morality of a human actor, in its place, behaving in that same way in that same situation. It will consider three ways in which this reduction might fail, based on programmers’ ignorance of who their act affects, on the difference between performing one and multiple instances of the same act, and on the extrinsic effects that can arise from the visibility of programs to others.
