AI and autonomous systems worthy of trust

Jim Burrows

Dec 9, 2022

The “Political Orientation” of AIs.

Studies are suggesting popular AIs, chatbots, are politically…

Jim Burrows

Aug 31, 2017

The Zeroth Principle of Bioethics

I was recently whacked upside the head by the difference between…

Jim Burrows

May 5, 2017

Masquerading as Human

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a lightbulb. Cybersecurity & the ethics of…

Earl Wajenberg

Jan 18, 2017

AI in the News — #27

Emotion recognition (TechXplore)

AI can now identify human emotions based on facial expression and voice. It can therefore be given instructions on how to react to those emotions — which it assuredly has never felt. But a clever script can make it seem like your AI…

The Ethics of Autonomous Cars

If, as I claim, the Trolley Problem is not a good example of the ethics…

Earl Wajenberg

Sep 28, 2016

AI in the News — #26

Sanbot, (TechXplore)

Sanbot is a general-purpose domestic robot, made in China. It looks rather neotenous, as now seems standard for helper ‘bots, keeps its general intelligence on cloud servers, but has a suite of local apps as well. For some reason, it has flippers for arms that appear…

Jim Burrows

Sep 20, 2016

Killing the Runaway Trolley Problem

The nearly half-century-old “Trolley Problem” is a runaway…

Jim Burrows

Aug 30, 2016

Structure in AI, Law, Ethics, the World and the Mind

There are two kinds of (AI, Law, Ethics…

Jim Burrows

Aug 23, 2016

Suckering the Artificial Chump

For the last year or so, I’ve been writing about many of the ethical issues that arise in the area of…

AI in the News — #25

Chatbots: common sense vs. Turing (Techxplore)

The Winograd Schema Challenge is a contest to see who can build the best chatbot. It’s not like the Turing test, which is about fooling a human into mistaking a computer for a fellow human. Instead, it’s about designing…