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Another possibly useful resource is the 1987 book Computers in Battle, eds. David Bellin and Gary Chapman.
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<div class="">That book was a response to DARPA’s Strategic Computing program, which proposed various uses of AI on the battlefield. </div>
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<div class="">Many ethical and legal issues are covered, and most chapters would be easy reads for undergrads.</div>
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<div class="">On Apr 23, 2018, at 11:23, Mark J. Nelson <<a href="mailto:mjn@anadrome.org" class="">mjn@anadrome.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Alberts, Gerard <<a href="mailto:g.alberts@uva.nl" class="">g.alberts@uva.nl</a>> writes:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">The crucial book is Hubert L. Dreyfus, What computers still can't do. A critique of artificial reason (MIT, 1972. 1992). The original What computers can't do, is basically a philosophical argumentation. The revised edition has
an ample introduction offering a most readible historical view of the debate as it evolved.<br class="">
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For more historical context on Dreyfus's role as AI critic, I like a recent<br class="">
retrospective paper he wrote. This one focuses on the constructive<br class="">
flipside of his famous critique of AI, his less-famous efforts to<br class="">
cultivate, through collaborations with AI researchers, a different kind<br class="">
of AI that would be responsive to his critiques. He doesn't think the<br class="">
efforts were successful, but in my opinion it's an interesting<br class="">
postmortem of that line of work:<br class="">
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Hubert L. Dreyfus (2007). Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it<br class="">
would require making it more Heideggerian. Artificial Intelligence<br class="">
171(18): 1137-1160. <a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.10.012" class="">
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2007.10.012</a><br class="">
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More solidly on the original ethics point, one of the Dreyfus-influenced<br class="">
AI researchers, Phil Agre, has a nice article on how to reconceive of AI<br class="">
research as a "critical technical practice" (admittedly not quite the<br class="">
same way of framing things as the "ethics" frame, but related):<br class="">
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Philip E. Agre (1997). Toward a Critical Technical Practice: Lessons<br class="">
Learned in Trying to Reform AI. In: Bridging the Great Divide: Social<br class="">
Science, Technical Systems, and Cooperative Work, Erlbaum, 1997.<br class="">
<a href="http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html" class="">http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html</a><br class="">
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Mark J. Nelson<br class="">
The MetaMakers Institute<br class="">
Falmouth University<br class="">
http://www.kmjn.org<br class="">
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