The ethical challenges of AI

Machine learning algorithms are everywhere. It is not just Facebook and Google. Companies are using them to provide personalized education services and advanced business intelligence services, to fight cancer and to detect counterfeit goods. The technology will make us collectively wealthier and more capable of providing for human welfare, human rights, human justice and the fostering of the virtues we need to live well in communities. We should welcome it and do all that we can to promote it. As with any new technology, there are ethical challenges.