Moral and Political Worries in Artificial Intelligence

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On the one hand AI is hailed as a driver of unprecedented progress with the potential to alleviate poverty expand access to education and improve healthcare outcomes and on the other critics highlight risks such as bias surveillance erosion of accountability and even the possibility of autonomous systems escaping human control. Some argue that current AI systems are far less “intelligent” than the label suggests lacking consciousness or intentionality and are therefore better understood as powerful but limited tools. Others emphasize the dangers of delegating critical decisions to opaque algorithms especially in domains such as justice warfare or mental health. These divergent perspectives …