Is Google Duplex ethical and moral? – Towards Data Science

Many people in the AI community immediately hailed it as a huge step forward in the combination of these techniques. While I'm always a bit skeptical of any general and immediate backlash against a technology that hasn't been used for bad there are very good points about this that should be discussed. Last week I started the online course on edX by Microsoft titled "Ethics and Law in Data and Analytics." What was most interesting to me was a very simple framework they look at values of ethics. It is broken into two value sets: 1) values based on the well being of others (in this case the person receiving the call at the business) and 2) values based on my own well-being (a mixture of Google and me).