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Can AI, artificial intelligence, help us make practical ethical decisions.

The philosopher Walter Sernot Armstrong thinks so, and he's been working with a data scientist

and a computer scientist to try to build a system that will be

abused to doctors faced with ethical dilemmas.

Walter Sin at Armstrong, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a joy.

We're going to discuss today how human morality can be introduced into AI.

But I want to start with a very basic question because people seem to define AI in all sorts of different ways.

What's your definition of artificial intelligence?

I think artificial intelligence should be defined very broadly.

It occurs whenever a machine learns something,

because learning involves intelligence.

And in particular, often in AI systems,

the machine is given a certain goal, and it learns new and better means to achieve that goal.

That's when artificial intelligence occurs.

So it involves learning.

A crucial component of AI is that the machine or the algorithm learns as it proceeds.

Exactly. And also that it has a goal and it tries out different means of that goal.

Tests which means are working best, and then finds

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