Moral Codes: Designing Alternatives to AI

We don’t need more artificial intelligence—we need better programming languages to tell computers what we actually want them to do.

Decades ago, we believed that robots and computers would take over all the boring jobs and drudgery, leaving humans to a life of leisure. This hasn’t happened. Instead, humans are still doing boring jobs, and even worse, AI researchers have built technology that is creative, self-aware, and emotional—doing the tasks humans were supposed to enjoy. How did we get ...