Unc Researchers Dive Into Ethics, Implications Of Ai Chatbots

The Carolina AI Project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is exploring the reality, morals and ethics of AI and virtual reality. The project brings together faculty and graduate students from the philosophy, linguistics and computer science departments to study the implications of AI technology. The project director, Dr. Thomas Hofweber, believes that AI will have a profound impact on society, research and the university. Peter Hase, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science, is working on a practical problem related to belief revision. Experts are looking at how AI systems are related to human intelligence and how they can exhibit intelligent behavior.