The Ghost in the Machine: The Ethical Risks of AI

The Ghost in the Machine: The Ethical Risks of AI – By Emile Ormond

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Published Mar 11, 2020

Emile Ormond

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A group of eminent scientists, including the late physicist Stephen Hawking, notoriously claimed that: “Success in creating artificial intelligence (AI) would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last" (Hawkings et al., 2014).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.36615/thethinker.v83i1.220

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Vol. 83 No. 1 (2020): African Futures and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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The Ghost in the Machine: The Ethical Risks of AI . (2020). The Thinker, 83(1). https://doi.org/10.36615/thethinker.v83i1.220

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