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" By late 2017, we concluded that what we really were talking about was the need for a full-blown approach to ethics across AI. It was far from a simple proposition. As computers gained the ability to make decisions previously reserved for humans, virtually every ethical question for humanity was becoming an ethical question for computing. If millennia of debate among philosophers had not forged clear-cut and universal answers, then a consensus was not likely to emerge overnight simply because we needed to apply them to computers. "

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 quote : By late 2017, we concluded that what we really were talking about was the need for a full-blown approach to ethics across AI. It was far from a simple proposition. As computers gained the ability to make decisions previously reserved for humans, virtually every ethical question for humanity was becoming an ethical question for computing. If millennia of debate among philosophers had not forged clear-cut and universal answers, then a consensus was not likely to emerge overnight simply because we needed to apply them to computers.