Artificial Intelligence: The New Ethical Frontier

Considered one of the most provocative ethical issues facing the 21st century, this seminar examines cutting edge advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence), its legal and moral issues and what the Talmud says about AI, the nature of the mind and freewill. Can Machines Learn to be Moral? Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car or a Robotic Surgeon Make a Mistake? Should Courts Use AI to Sentence Criminals? Should Machines be Allowed to Take Over Human Jobs? What is the Torah’s View on Artificial Intelligence, the Mind and Freewill? Presenters: Mitchell P. MarcusRCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Pennsylvania Mitchell Marcus is the RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also Professor of Linguistics. He studied Linguistics and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University as an undergraduate, received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the MIT Artificial Intelligence