8 papers
Deep opacity and AI: A threat to XAI and to privacy protection mechanisms
Vincent C. Müller
It is known that big data analytics and AI pose a threat to privacy, and that some of this is due to some kind of "black box problem" in AI. I explain how this becomes a problem in…
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Vincent C. Müller
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about…
AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA)
Alexandre Erler, Vincent C. Müller
This paper offers an overview of the prospects and ethics of using AI to achieve human enhancement, and more broadly what we call intellectual augmentation (IA). After explaining t…
The history of digital ethics
Vincent C. Müller
Digital ethics, also known as computer ethics or information ethics, is now a lively field that draws a lot of attention, but how did it come about and what were the developments t…
Pancomputationalism: Theory or metaphor?
Vincent C. Müller
The theory that all processes in the universe are computational is attractive in its promise to provide an understandable theory of everything. I want to suggest here that this pan…
Challenges for artificial cognitive systems
Antoni Gomila, Vincent C. Müller
The declared goal of this paper is to fill this gap: "... cognitive systems research needs questions or challenges that define progress. The challenges are not (yet more) predictio…