#8: The ethics of artificial intelligence - Irina Raicu

We sat down with Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. And today, we’re breaking down the ethics of artificial intelligence, those moral, philosophical challenges that are already resulting from the deployment of generative AI technologies. 

Episode Links: 

• AI is using social media data: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/social-media-ai-data-opt-out/index.html
• Musical.ly’s FTC fine: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-data-privacy-parenting-eafed6bfd7d241549e097e38e8088873
• X trains AI on your tweets: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/
• ChatGPT’s impact on the labor market: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/chatgpt-s-impact-on-the-labor-market-openai-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence-job-loss-report-st
• Human creativity persists in the era of generative AI: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/human-creativity-persists-era-of-generative-artificial-intelligence
• Character AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/i-downloaded-character-ai-it-s-profoundly-disturbing
• The AI mirror: https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/the-ai-mirror-shannon-vallor
• Digital necromancy: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/elevenlabs-latest-release-highlights-the-issue-of-digital-necromancy
• Hello Barbie: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/internet-ethics-blog/speaking-ill-of-the-discontinued/
• Dickens on Big Data: https://www.vox.com/2014/5/1/11626330/for-these-times-dickens-on-big-data
• The public health crisis of AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/the-public-health-crisis-of-artificial-intelligence
• AI and sustainability: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/heres-what-ai-for-sustainability-actually-looks-like-ibm-machine-learning-executives
  
  

Outline: 

0:00 – Intro
1:52 – Irina’s journey into ethics
4:42 – The link between social media and AI 
9:57 – Why should people care about data privacy
15:27 – The impact of automation on society
20:00 – What happens to the generation who grows up with AI? 
26:24 – What AI might mean for loneliness? 
32:06 – Grief and digital immortality
39:06 – The issue of anthropomorphization 
44:19 – The lifecycle of data
47:34 – We track everything, all the time
53:47 – Is AI anti-human? 
59:03 – Skepticism in AI 
1:00 – Tech solutionism & its impacts
1:12 – Regulation and twisted incentives

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.