This article was originally posted on Daily Nous by Justin Weinberg.
The following guest post is by members of the Value Analysis in Design team at Northeastern University—John Basl, Katie Creel, Meica Magnani, Vance Ricks, and Yafeng Wang—and the Embedded EthiCS team at Harvard University—Jeff Behrends and Matt Kopec.
Over the last decade, interest in ethical issues related to computing, especially concerning artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, has skyrocketed. Within philosophy, this has been most obvious in job market trends; demand for specialists in the ethics of AI within philosophy departments has surged and interdisciplinary hires between departments of philosophy and computer science are increasingly common. Perhaps less obvious within philosophy as a discipline is the uptick in a particular approach to ethics curricula within CS and the role that philosophers have been playing in this approach.
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