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Robots and automation are not things of the future; they are popping up in various places in the public sector. AI is increasingly used for both small and big decisions such as sorting incoming mail […]
Unlike human judgment, machines are not affected by emotions in their decision making. This can make them seem superior in the sense of being more logical or rational, which is often seen as more accurate or reliable than intuition or “gut feeling”…
The ethical discussion of autonomous vehicles has been fairly one-sided. It has focused on how vehicles should behave in case of an unavoidable crash and how is responsible if the vehicle crashes. But why don’t we talk about safety?
In Homer’s epic poem, as Ulysses heads home, Circe suggests that he plug his ears. Otherwise, the Sirens’ song would lure him to steer his ship towards rocks and shipwreck. Ulysses asks his crew to plug their ears and tie him to the ship’s mast. When he passes the Sirens, he asks his crew to release him, but they refuse and the ship sails on…
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Granted the current technological development of AI, the evaluation of risks of AI are highly relevant. Some proponents of AI safety have suggested elaborate scenarios of AI risks [1], which strikes others as implausible and hence—or so they argue—ought to be ignored [2]. Thus, the question of how much attention we should give to implausible scenarios is a highly relevant issue to resolve. Interestingly, there […]
It is a quarter to midnight on a Tuesday and you are asking your virtual voice assistant to stream the next episode. Seems an easy task for an AI. The catch is that last week you asked…
In a lecture in 1951 Alan Turing offered several ideas that foreshadowed much of cutting-edge AI safety discussion of the early 21st…