Autonomous weapons, self-driving vehicles, robotic manufacturing plants. If these technologies are transforming our future, wouldn't it be wise to know what makes their designers tick, and what roles they envision for their human operators? What these roles turn out to be, argues New York Times science writer John Markoff, involves not a technical but an ethical choice. In his new book Machines of Loving Grace, he X-rays the artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction communities to discover their respective value systems.
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