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The best books about interspecies communication

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Today Shepherd published a list with my favourite five books about interspecies communication . There is also a bookshelf with more book recommendations about similar topics. Check it out!

Ethical AI or Ethics by AI?

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Making AI ethical might be impossible, but AI can make us more ethical! I don’t think it will ever be possible to guarantee that AI will behave fully ethical. Marvin Minsky once said: “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” What he means is that because we made them, the robots will follow our ethical understanding and thus be ethically well-behaved - unfortunately there will always be unethical hackers, leading to unethical robots. Isaac Asimov defined the three law of robotics which say that (1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.  Looking at the military uses of AI, where both Russia and the US announced that they are working on self-guided missiles that use A...