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Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics 4/2021

24.02.2021 | Book Review

Flawed Like Us and the Starry Moral Law: Review of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

verfasst von: Tae Wan Kim

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 4/2021

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Excerpt

It took almost a year to write this review. It’s the kind of book that you can read in one sitting. But it is not a story that you can easily digest. It’s disturbing. At least to me. If the goal of a novel is to disrupt readers, Ian McEwan’s (2019) Machines Like Me achieves that. The agitation makes me rethink what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence. …

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Fußnoten
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For an overview of methods for understanding deep neural models, see Montavon et al. (2018) and Gunning (2019).
 
2
Moral particularism criticizes rule-based ethical theory, but its criticism is not that rules are not used in moral reasoning, but that one-size-fits all rules are practically bad. But rule-based or logic-based ethical theory never submits such a claim. See Smith and Dubbink (2011).
 
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Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin: Reimer, later DeGruyter, 1910ff.) 5:161.33–6; translation by Paul Guyer (1992).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Flawed Like Us and the Starry Moral Law: Review of Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
verfasst von
Tae Wan Kim
Publikationsdatum
24.02.2021
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04758-8

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