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Ethical Dilemmas in Artificial Intelligence

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AI systems have been shown to exhibit racial and gender bias in hiring and criminal justice because they learn from historical human decisions that contain those very biases.

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A self-driving car must choose between hitting a pedestrian or swerving and harming its passenger. How should it decide? This is just one of many ethical dilemmas that emerge as artificial intelligence takes on roles once reserved for humans.