David Edmonds is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University and a former BBC radio journalist. He is the author or editor of many critically acclaimed philosophy books (and one on chess) which together have been translated into over two dozen languages. These include the (with John Eidinow) the international best seller Wittgenstein's Poker and, most recently, a biography, Parfit: A Philosopher and his Mission to Save Morality. David also hosts a couple of philosophy podcasts. Philosophy Bites, which he makes with Nigel Warburton has had over 45 million downloads.

• Introduction


• Part I: Health and Insurance


• 1: Julian Savulescu: Trust Me, I'm a Doctor


• 2: Maximilian Kiener: Cyber-hacks


• 3: Jonathan Pugh: AI and the end of insurance?


• Part II: Law and Crime


• 4: John Zerilli: Computer says No!


• 5: John Tasioulas: Guilty! Legal Adjudication


• 6: Binesh Hass: Predictive Policing


• Part III:Politics and Manipulation


• 7: Silvia Milano: Recommended!


• 8: Thomas Douglas and Gabriel de Marco: Undue Influence


• 9: Theodore Lechterman: The Perfect Politician


• Part IV: Defence


• 10: Linda Eggert: Autonomous Weapons


• 11: Mariarosaria Taddeo: Cyber Defence


• Part V: Economics, Skills, and the Environment


• 12: Glen Weyl and Aksel Sterri: The Market for Data


• 13: Mariarosaria Taddeo and Luciano Floridi: AI and climate change


• 14: Daniel Susskind: The Economics of Work


• 15: Carina Prunkl: Corporate Profiling


• 16: Carissa Véliz: Losing skills


• Part VI: Identity and Values


• 17: Muriel Leuenberger: Self-Knowledge


• 18: César Palacios González: Three Laws of AI


• 19: Peter Millican: Ethics and Games


• 20: Ruth Chang: Value-alignment

There is no more important issue at present than artificial intelligence. AI has begun to penetrate almost every sphere of human activity. It will disrupt our lives entirely. David Edmonds brings together a team of leading philosophers to explore some of the urgent moral concerns we should have about this revolution.