Phys.org July 16, 2018
Speaking at a recent conference on ethics in science and technology in Toulouse in France, researchers from the Netherlands called for a Europe-wide network of institutions that can provide a set of values, based on the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, which the technology industry could operate within. Ethical issues surrounding AI – such as bias in machine learning algorithms and how to oversee the decision-making of autonomous machines – also attracted widespread discussion at the conference. In the military domain, a very important concept is meaningful human control. Good design of the interface between humans and machines can help ensure humans exercise control at three important stages – data input, processing and reasoning, and the output or action… read more.
One of the pressing questions that arise with artificial intelligence is how to account for the actions of machines that make decisions by themselves. Credit: ITU Pictures, licensed under CC BY 2.0