Ethics — The Next Frontier For Artificial Intelligence

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Don Basile

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AI’s next frontier requires ethicsbuilt through policy.

Will Donald Trump deliver?


Will we live into a future where machines are as

intelligent — or frighteningly, more so — than humans?


ARTIFICIALINTELLIGENCEIS AT THE HEART OFTHAT INNOVATION.


What President Trump will haveto add to this conversation is, as

of now, another great mystery.


In a report released by the White House on the

current and future state of AI, leading

innovators considered not only the technology

that will drive AI, but also the ethical

considerations that must fuel its growth.

How should we regulate automated cars to

ensure public safety? How can AI be used to

streamline government operations and provide

new jobs (for humans)?


In the next 20 years, experts predict that

machine learning will continue to make

great strides on a number of human tasks.

If this innovation is done in an ethical way,

we can build a future in which humans are

not competing with machines or being

overtaken by robots, but instead entering

into a new era of collaboration that frees up

the human spirit for more meaningful tasks

that require emotional intelligence.

THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC POLICY MUST

KEEP PACE WITH THE RAPID ADVANCES

HAPPENING IN AI TECHNOLOGY.

IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE TO HOLD

DONALD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE FOR

ENSURING SUCH POLICIES ARE

PROTECTIVE OF BOTH PRIVATE

AND PUBLIC INTEREST.



As we create new technologies that will alter

the fabric of our daily lives, we must

simultaneously implement the policy solutions

that will protect AI from going the way of sci-fi

movies . We must take a democratic approach

to future technology. We have to ensure that

science is aligned with the public good.


100 technology leaders pled in an

open letter that a Trump presidency

would be a “disaster for innovation.”


That one-fourth of entrepreneurs are immigrants,

and tech companies are apt to recruit talent

overseas, could bolster this theory considering

Trump’s harsh stance on immigration.

Nor does it bode well that Trump is likely to put

national security interests over those of privacy.


But fear not. Given that sectors like technology

move globally and have power beyond policy,

their path won’t much be hindered by a Trump

presidency. Even better, advances in artificial

intelligence are already supporting the notion

of a future in which machines strengthen

human perception, rather than deplete us of it.

AS FOR PREVENTINGTHE SCI-FI SIDE OF AI?

That’s where policy must intervene, to rise to the challengesof machine learning.

Though Trump has no clear policies on the matter as of now,we can only hope technological democracy succeeds as wemove forward, whether because of or in spite of American

leadership.

We may find that while his administration is less concernedabout “ethics,” per se, the prospect of a harmoniously

automated future is a deal too good not to secure.


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Ethics — The Next Frontier For Artificial Intelligence