Daniel Susskind, Carissa Veliz and Linda Eggert chaired by David Edmonds

Ethicist and editor of a new collection of essays on the morality of artificial intelligence (AI) David Edmonds leads a discussion with contributors to the volume, economist Professor Daniel Susskind, and philosophers and ethicists Professor Carissa Véliz and Linda Eggert.

Edmonds is a distinguished research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University, author of philosophy books and co-host of the Philosophy Bites podcast. He has brought together a team of leading philosophers to write about the implications of AI including for self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law, policing and defence.

Susskind, a research professor in economics at King’s College London, senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University and co- author of the best- selling book The Future of the Professions, contributed an essay Work and Meaning: A Challenge for Economics.

Véliz, an associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI,and author of Privacy Is Power and The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance, contributed an essay, Losing Skills.

Eggert, an early career research fellow in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, where she works on moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of law, contributed her essay on Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Rights.