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
OneZero
Published in
13 min readMay 20, 2019

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InIn 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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Bryan Walsh
OneZero
Writer for

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.