Shaping the Future: How to Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI Evolution
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Essay Prompt:
Shaping the Future: How to Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI Evolution (Max. 1500 words)
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Examine the evolving impact of AI on areas such as individual privacy, surveillance, authenticity and identity, social inequality, employment, and autonomous decision-making in critical fields like healthcare, law enforcement, environmental management and defence policies. Reflect on the ethical dilemmas that might emerge from the evolution of human-machine interaction in the context of potential opportunities and risks that AI presents for society in the near future.
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Write an academic essay outlining your research and critical reflection and your proposal on key ethical interventions and responsibilities that you think should be undertaken today by AI developers, users, and governing bodies to navigate these challenges.
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Recommended Resource Links:
1. The Future of Employment, C. Frey, M. Osborne
2. Harms of AI, D. AcemoÄŸlu
3. Regulating AI and Robotics: Ethical and Legal Challenges, M. Ebers
4. AI Ethics – Too Principled to Fail?, B. Mittelstandt
5. The data will see you now, Ada Lovelace Institute
6. The Myth of the Privacy Paradox, D. Solove
7. Safety and Privacy in Immersive Extended Reality: An Analysis and Policy
8. Global Toolkit on AI and the Rule of Law for the Judiciary, UNESCO
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