Ian McEwan on His New Novel and Ethics in the Age of A.I.

Ian McEwan on His New Novel and Ethics in the Age of A.I.
When we program morality into robots, are we doomed to disappoint them with our very human ethical inconsistency?
Bryan Walsh
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13 min read·
May 20, 2019
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In his newest novel, Machines Like Me, the British writer Ian McEwan takes on the rise of artificial intelligence, exploring how humans would react to the creation of perfectly…
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Written by Bryan Walsh
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Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.
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