The right question. Issues about artificial intelligence

Abstract

The arrival of artificial intelligence ―that accompany vulnerable people and even be our friends and lovers, for example― is less and less a distant dream, so many of these ethical questions must be raised in a medium-term time horizon, between current problems and the hypothetical arrival of general artificial intelligence. Raising the right questions is a very complicated task in general, and even more so in the field of artificial intelligence, full of bombastic declarations and announcements by experts, conspiracies and fears based on science fiction stories, and a well-founded fear in light of the growing number of scandals caused by the bad practices of service providers when it comes to managing the data they extract from our activity on the network. The intention of this paper is to expose a number of issues whose treatment is usually overshadowed in the literature in favor of other debates, in order to contribute to a more informed and critical view of the technology that seems to be coming to combat skepticism based on science fiction beliefs and to awaken a well-informed skepticism.