Ethical questions of artificial intelligence

Over the course of about fifty years of artificial intelligence, new technologies have emerged that are enriching this field. It is a dynamic and rapidly evolving area. Even though we cannot precisely determine the very definition of intelligence. Nowadays, it is a broad field that applies knowledge from many areas such as psychology, neuroscience, logic, economics, philosophy, mathematics, management theory, etc. Artificial Intelligence is currently dealt with by a large number of scientists as well as philosophers who raise many questions. One of the most important one is the question whether machines can think and the question whether AI can have its own ethics. The course analyses the moral dilemmas associated with the dynamic development in the AI area and possible scenarios of future developments in this area.