The Guiding Role of Buddhist Thought in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence, Buddhism, ethics.Abstract
Artificial intelligence technology has been widely adopted globally, and its application in different fields has brought higher efficiency and accuracy to people around the world, such as the recognition of simple diseases in healthcare, the automatic adaptation of student abilities in education systems, and the planning and construction of smart cities. However, it cannot be ignored that while this technology has brought help to humanity, it has also brought unprecedented machine ethical challenges to human society – such as amplified skin color bias, easy access to personal information, privacy breaches, and the synthesis of false information or images. This paper starts from several core ideas of Buddhism – compassion, meditation, and the interconnection of all things – to analyze the potential guiding role of Buddhist thought in AI ethical issues and discuss exemplary cases of successfully applying Buddhist thought in technological development, thus revealing the important role of Buddhist thought in the future development of AI ethics.
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