The Pentagon wants an AI Ethicist

AUTHOR: Lauren C Williams Via Defensesystems.com After a rash of tech employee protests, the Defense Department wants to hire an artificial intelligence ethicist. “We are going to bring on someone who has a deep background in ethics,” tag-teaming with DOD lawyers to make sure AI can be “baked in,” Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, who leads…

Anatomy 101 for AI‐driven robotics: Explanatory, ethical and legal frameworks

AUTHORS: Shane O’SullivanSimon LeonardAndreas HolzingerColin AllenFiorella BattagliaNathalie NevejansFijs W.B. van LeeuwenMohammed Imran SajidMichael FriebeHutan AshrafianHelmut HeinsenDominic WichmannMargaret Hartnett Via Onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract Background The application of human‐centred artificial intelligence (AI) and transparent machine learning (ML), to integrated Gross anatomy models, complemented with medical imaging data of cadavers and novel audio tissue characterization methods, makes available a…

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

Ethics and the dawn of decision-making machines (intro only) AUTHOR: Jonathan Shaw  January -February 2019 Via Harvard Magazine On March 18, 2018, at around 10 P.M., Elaine Herzberg was wheeling her bicycle across a street in Tempe, Arizona, when she was struck and killed by a self-driving car. Although there was a human operator behind the wheel,…