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As AI technologies continue to advance, questions about the ethics of AI become more pressing than ever. In this talk, Professor Liao outlines some of the key issues and concerns in the study of AI ethics, identify some of the core claims that have been made, and propose an ethical framework based on human rights that can help us guide these discussions.

S. Matthew Liao is Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, Director of the Center for Bioethics, Professor of Global Public Health, and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University.  He is the author or editor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press); The Right to Be Loved (Oxford University Press); Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality (Oxford University Press); The Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (Oxford University Press); Current Controversies in Bioethics (Routledge), and over 70 articles in philosophy and bioethics.  He has given TED and TEDx talks in New York and CERN, Switzerland, and he has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, the BBC, Harper’s Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Scientific American and other media outlets.  He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal of moral, political and legal philosophy.