Episode 39 - Sven Nyholm on the Ethics of AI

This week on Prosthetic Gods we are talking to Sven Nyholm about his new book The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. If our thinking relies on external media, where do we stop and the AIs start? What is the moral status of LLMs? Are they sentient? Are AI relationships any good? And should we raise robots like children?

Sven Nyholm is Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich and a Principal Investigator for AI Ethics at the Munich Center for Machine Learning. His books include Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism and This Is Technology Ethics: An Introduction, and his latest, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, ranges from alignment and moral responsibility to artificial consciousness and the existential stakes of humanity's wager on AI.

Show Notes:

Sven Nyholm at Researchgate and PhilPapers

“How AI Robs Us of Meaning” Sven Nyholm

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by Sven Nyholm

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Credits:

Hosted by James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits
Music & Production by Jake Burley