IFSC 2200 Ethics in the Profession - Final Presentation

1. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence IFSC 2200 Ethics in the Profession - Final Project
2. Artificial Intelligence - Definitions “The study of ideas that enable computers to be intelligent.” Intelligence?
3. Artificial Intelligence Intelligence - Definition: … ability to reason? … ability to acquire and apply knowledge? … ability to perceive and manipulate things?
4. Goals of Artificial Intelligence - Make computer systems more useful “Computer scientists and engineers” - Understand the principles that make intelligence possible “ Psychologists, linguists, and philosophers”
5. What makes Artificial Intelligence a moral issue? - Human welfare ( physical safety) - Justice (equality) - Rights (private life, anonymity) - Duties - Ethical problems in Artificial Intelligence can be divided into 3 main sections: - Information - Control - Reasoning
6. What makes Artificial Intelligence a moral issue? - 1. Information Computer systems store information in databases. Management of information and communication between these systems could threaten private life, liberty or dignity of users
7. What makes Artificial Intelligence a moral issue? - 2. Control applications - Robotics Common problem of classical engineering: Guaranteeing personal safety and taking responsibility with the environment. Universal laws stating rules about behaviour between robots and humans … Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics?
8. What makes Artificial Intelligence a moral issue? - 2. Control applications - Robotics: Asimov three rules of robotics (xkcd: Why Asimov put the Three Laws of Robotics in the order he did)
9. What makes Artificial Intelligence a moral issue? - 3. Autonomous Reasoning Idea: computer systems taking decision by themselves. Problem: Trusting these intelligent systems. Examples: - Medical diagnosis by symptoms - Self-driving cars - Natural Language processing
10. Autonomous Reasoning - Ethical problems Computers have no consciousness ❖ They cannot take responsibility of their actions. ❖ Are the creators responsible? The company in charge?
11. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) - Definition “AGI is a field aiming at the building of “thinking machines”; that is, general-purpose systems with intelligence comparable to that of the human mind (and perhaps ultimately well beyond human general intelligence).” - AGI society (http://www.agi-society.org/) - AGI systems would not only get rights, but also they would want to have rights.
12. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Equality problems: - Could AGI systems work for humans? - Would not they become slaves? - Do we have the right to turn off a conscious computer system? Trust: - Autonomous doctor, autonomous judge
13. Conclusion - The field of Artificial Intelligence wants to create something that is not really understood: intelligence - Current AI ethics problems are quite undefined. - Everyday new controversial and polarizing discussions are held around usage of AI in the future. - We can not think about Artificial Intelligence without ethics.