Ask the ethicist: How to create guardrails for the AI age

Will AI devastate humanity or uplift it? Philosopher Christopher DiCarlo’s new book examines how we can navigate when AI surpasses human capacity.

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Christopher DiCarlo, philosopher, educator and ethicist who teaches in Philosophy Department at the University of Toronto. Author of “Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It.”

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Part I

DEBORAH BECKER: Artificial intelligence, essentially where machines do things that require human smarts is not…