How do you tell right from wrong in a strange new world? Computers have put us into two strange new worlds, first with the Internet and now with AI. Let this short 80-page book guide you as you puzzle things out. Topics include:

• The guiding principle: if something is wrong,
  it's still wrong when you do it with a computer
• Responsibilities you didn't know you had
• How people misunderstand the Internet
  and why older adults are easily tricked
• Copyright, copyleft, open-source, and public-domain
• How artificial intelligence works
  and how we know machines aren't conscious
• Why chatbots don't always tell the truth
• How to protect ourselves from out-of-control robots
• Why ethics is not about emotions, and you
  don't need a poet's sensitivities to be ethical

Written for people with or without a technical background, this is not a technical book about computer security, law, or even ethical theory. It's about how to understand new situations and apply your common sense there.

Michael A. Covington, Ph.D., was co-founder and long-time associate director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Georgia. He also chaired the University's first computer ethics committee. He is available for independent consulting and speaking in this and other areas.