From information to I, Robot: the reality of AI ethics

But Vallor – a leading American scholar of the ethics of data and artificial intelligence shortly to flit to Edinburgh University – reckons we should be concerned with military robots. Because of the people who may control them. Science fiction writers have fretted for decades about the moral philosophy of smart robots. What, at least in popular culture, we have not done so much is think about the ethics of dumb humans who will suddenly have control of vast amounts of artificial intelligence. That is where thinkers like Vallor come in.