Luciano Floridi is the Oxford Internet Institute’s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. Beginning in the fall, he will be the Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale University. For much of the past twenty-five years Luciano has been developing the philosophy of information as its own free-standing discipline within the philosophical world. In this episode he and Robinson delve into just one small corner of the subject. They talk about Luciano’s view of artificial intelligence as a novel form of agency before turning to some future applications of AI and the novel ethical considerations its use raises in the modern world.

Luciano’s Website: https://www.philosophyofinformation.net

Luciano’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Floridi

Information: A Very Short Introduction: https://a.co/d/5Jgq1wS

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

01:04 Introduction

04:58 Luciano’s Tetralogy

09:27 Artificial Intelligence as a New Form of Agency

26:49 Future Applications of AI

32:50 Ethics and Levels of Explanation

46:09 The Ethics of AI

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between.