An accessible source for the perpetual free will debate is Harris (2012). The compatibilist school of philosophers is represented in the writings of Mumford and Anjum (2014) and Dennett (2003).

Artificial intelligence conceptualizations of agency can be found in Russell and Norvig (2003) and Wooldridge (2009). Philosophical views on agency are compiled in Bratman (2007). An intent-based learning system is described in Forney et al. (2017).

The twenty-three principles for “beneficial AI” agreed to at the 2017 Asilomar meeting can be found at Future of Life Institute (2017).

Bratman, M. E. (2007). Structures of Agency: Essays. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Brockman, J. (2015). What to Think About Machines That Think. HarperCollins, New York, NY.

Dennett, D. C. (2003). Freedom Evolves. Viking Books, New York, NY.

Forney, A., Pearl, J., and Bareinboim, E. (2017). Counterfactual datafusion for online reinforcement learners. Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 70: 1156–1164.

Future of Life Institute. (2017). Asilomar AI principles. Available at: https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles (accessed December 2, 2017). Harris, S. (2012). Free Will. Free Press, New York, NY.

Mumford, S., and Anjum, R. L. (2014). Causation: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Oxford University Press, New York, NY.

Russell, S. J., and Norvig, P. (2003). Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. Wooldridge, J. (2009). Introduction to Multi-agent Systems. 2nd ed. John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY.