Department of Philosophy

A philosopher who studies technology is keeping a scorecard on AI and cautions that machines are not capable of truly moral choices.

Using screwworms, mosquitoes and invasive rodents as case studies, a team of researchers, including a Texas A&M professor, argues that deliberate full extinction is acceptable, but only rarely.

The university is among 16 institutions accepted into an artificial intelligence ethics initiative backed by the National Humanities Center (NHC) and Google.