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Reloading a Human Memory: A New Ethical Question for Artificial Intelligence Technology

AI Magazine

With the great amount of attention now being paid by the media to AI, it would be naive, shortsighted, and even self-deceptive to think that there will not be public interest in scrutinizing, monitoring, regulating, and even constraining our efforts. What we do can affect people's lives as they understand them. People are going to ask not only what we are doing but also whether it should be done. We should be prepared to participated in open discussion and debate on such ethical issues.


Reloading a Human Memory: A New Ethical Question for Artificial Intelligence Technology

AI Magazine

One day a man, who had lost Using an ordinary text-editing algorithm and a variety of much of his long-term episodic memory, consulted the professor changeable key words, the man could call up stories on his to ask him if there was any way he could help him personal computer, read them aloud, and thus attempt to regain the lost memories. Being righthanded text-editing method is trivial, but this is not an article and left-hemisphere specialized for language, he about method; it is about ethics.) The hope was that was still able to speak, to read and write: and to understand not only would the man now have some memory to think what was said to him. Besides the usual difficulty about and talk about but, more importantly, this repeated in recalling proper names, his main problem involved large daily practice at his own pace, with no one looking over gaps in his memory for events that he participated in before his shoulder, might help open up new access paths to his the stroke, although he could remember events that own memory of these events, filling them in and modifying occurred after the stroke. He could not, however, remember the award out the plan.