Moral Codes by Alan F Blackwell

Moral Codes by Alan F Blackwell

We don't need more artificial intelligence-we need better programming languages to tell computers what we actually want them to do.

Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and drudgery, leaving humans to a life of leisure. This hasn't happened. Instead, humans are still doing boring jobs, and even worse, AI researchers have built technology that is creative, self-aware, and emotional-doing the tasks humans were supposed to enjoy. How did we get here? In Moral Codes, Alan Blackwell argues that there is a fundamental flaw in the research agenda of artificial intelligence What humanity needs, Blackwell argues, is better ways to tell computers what we want them to do, with new and better programming languages: More Open Representations, Access to Learning, and Control Over Digital Expression-In other words, MORAL CODE.

Blackwell draws on his deep experiences as a programming language designer-which he has been doing since 1983-to unpack fundamental principles of interaction design and explain their technical relationship to ideas of creativity and fairness. Taking aim at software that constrains our conversations with strict word counts or infantilizes human interaction with likes and emojis, Blackwell shows how to design software that is better-not more efficient or more profitable, but better for society and better for all people. Covering recent research and the latest smart tools, Blackwell offers rich design principles for a better kind of software-and a better kind of world.

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ISBN 13	9780262548717
Title	Moral Codes
Author	Alan F Blackwell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	MIT Press Ltd
Year published	2024-08-06
Number of pages	240
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