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From: breen@SILVER.BACS.INDIANA.EDU (elise breen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Does AI kill?
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Date: 19 Jul 88 14:34:23 GMT
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>In article <1376@daisy.UUCP> klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee) calls for
>comments about a Washington Post story blaming the Aegis system
>for faulty reasoning in the misidentification of a commercial
>airliner as a hostile aircraft.

>The trouble with AI is that it is not yet AW.

Nor is it AC!

But seriously, why is it so difficult to find researchers in our 
field who are willing to discuss the ethics of what we are doing?
Why are courses in the ethics of AI not offered to graduate students
in Cognitive Science, Computer Science and related branches of Psych
and Linguistics.  The best that our University offers is two grad-
level philosophy of science courses relating to AI, and these are
not mandatory---indeed many professors actively DISCOURAGE their
students from taking even one of them.  Excuse me for being a naive
first year grad student if the answer to this question is something
obvious like "we have to teach you to look the other way because 
all the grant money comes from sources with unethical strings attached."

---Elise Breen