The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence

In the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has become a disruptive force around the world, offering enormous potential for innovation but also creating hazards and risks for individuals and the societies in which they live. This volume addresses the most pressing philosophical, ethical, legal, and societal challenges posed by AI. Contributors from different disciplines and sectors explore the foundational and normative aspects of responsible AI and provide a basis for a transdisciplinary approach to responsible AI. This work, which is designed to foster future discussions to develop proportional approaches to AI governance, will enable scholars, scientists, and other actors to identify normative frameworks for AI to allow societies, states, and the international community to unlock the potential for responsible innovation in this critical field. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

silja voeneky is a leading scholar in the field of the interdependence of ethics and public international law, and the governance of emerging technologies. She is Professor of Public International Law, and Comparative Law at the University of Freiburg and was a Fellow at Harvard Law School. She previously served as a member of the German Ethics Council. Since 2001, Voeneky has been, inter alia, a legal advisor to the German Federal Foreign Office and the German Federal Ministry of Environment.

philipp kellmeyer is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical Center – University of Freiburg. In his neuroscientific work, he investigates language processing in the brain and the clinical application of brain–computer interfaces, virtual reality, and other digital technologies. Through his contributions to neuroethics, he has become an international expert on ethical aspects of neuroscience, neurotechnology, and AI.

oliver mueller is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on technology and on contemporary philosophy, University of Freiburg, and a Senior Fellow at the 2018–2021 FRIAS Saltus Research Group ‘Responsible AI’.

wolfram burgard is a leading researcher in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He co-authored more than 400 publications including the famous book ‘Probabilistic Robotics’. He received numerous awards including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious German research award, and is Fellow of several societies.