As people’s morals are different depending on their origin and class, some legal scholars argue ethics are too subjective for AI to follow in the conversation at the AI Now 2018 Symposium.
It is essential that AI need to follow standards to ensure the safety of human, the same goes to its developers, which has been emphasized by researchers, leaders, activists around the world. But who gets to define and enforce those ethics?
MIT Researchers have developed a platform known as the Moral Machine, which is used to look into the divergence of people’s opinions on driving situation and ask what they prioritize in an accident. The result from millions of people around the world shows that there is a huge variation across cultures. Moreover, it was proved by North Carolina State University that reading ethical standards actually doesn’t affect people’s behaviors, which means after reading a code of ethics, software engineers still does not do anything differently.
In the discussion, a solution was proposed to deal with the ambiguous and unaccountable nature of ethics: reframing AI-driven consequences in terms of human rights, suggested by an international legal scholar at NYU’s School of Law, Philip Alston. “[Human rights are] in the constitution,” said Alston. “They’re in the bill of rights; they’ve been interpreted by courts, if an AI system takes away people’s basic rights, then it should not be acceptable,” he added.
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