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Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations

“…In his teaching, Pope Francis applies this common meaning in a perhaps unexpected, even challenging way, to refer to the way human life is oriented toward encounter with divine mercy, how the redemptive promise of such encounter is mediated primarily through our relationships, and how the movement through such encounter and toward divine mercy occurs amid the fallibility, conflict, and confusion that constitute human life. 28 As Francis describes it, an authentic relational encounter between persons involves not just observation, conversation, or action; it is a mutually compassionate involvement. Confronted with another's suffering, it is not enough to say "What a shame."…”

“…Consciousness, therefore, is intrinsic to personhood and intelligence; and if it is reduced to some sort of capacity for outward behavior, we lose the very sharing of minds and hearts that we most greatly treasure in personal relationships and, ultimately, in our share in the life of God. 31 Today's AI systems do not have this interior life-and yet, by their behavior, many of them feel personal. Therefore, we reflect also on what sorts of simulated relationships with AI may be of benefit or detriment to our own lives as persons, including our spiritual lives.…”

“…In contrast to the generality of principles or rights, sometimes specific cases have become the building blocks for conversations on AI. Some prominent cases include those mentioned in the above sections, as well as others such as: COMPAS, the Northpointe criminal recidivism algorithm; 28 the Cambridge Analytica scandal; 29 and the first known pedestrian fatality due to an Uber self-driving car. 30 While these cases are negative examples to avoid, there are also positive examples put forward for emulation, such as the development of internal corporate AI ethics groups acting to operationalize ethical principles.…”

“…As an ethical method, casuistry compares newer, undecided cases with older, decided cases, in order to find similarities and differences and then decide the new case in a way consistent with existing logic. 31 There is a clear connection between casuistry and technology product development: every new product has some similarities and some differences from previous 28 Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu, and Lauren Kirchner, "Machine Bias," ProPublica, May 23, 2016, www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing. 29 Nicholas Confessore, "Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: The Scandal and the Fallout So Far," New York Times, April 4, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridgeanalytica-scandal-fallout.html.…”

“…30 Daisuke Wakabayashi, "Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam," New York Times, March 19, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uberdriverless-fatality.html. 31 Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990). products, and these similarities and differences can create, ethically speaking, better and worse effects on the world.…”