AI labs hire philosophers to ask fundamental questions about machine ethics

AI companies have begun hiring professional philosophers to tackle fundamental ethical and epistemological questions about machine intelligence, according to The New York Times. The experts are embedded in labs to guide how AI systems are developed and trained. The trend prompted online jokes that AI will finally learn what it feels like to be unemployable.

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