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How can we ensure that artificial intelligence provides the greatest benefit to all of humanity?
By that, we don’t necessarily mean to ask how we create AIs with a sense of justice. That's important, of course—but a lot of time is already spent weighing the ethical quandaries of artificial intelligence. How do we ensure that systems trained on existing data aren’t imbued with human ideological biases that discriminate against users? Can we trust AI doctors to correctly identify health problems in medical scans if they can’t explain what they see? And how should we teach driverless cars to behave in the event of an accident?
The thing is, all of those questions contain an implicit assumption: that artificial intelligence is already being put to use in, for instance, the workplaces, hospitals, and cars that we all use. While that might be increasingly true in the wealthy West, it’s certainly not the case for billions of people in poorer parts of the world. To that end, United Nations agencies, AI experts, policymakers and businesses have gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a three-day summit called AI for Good. The aim: “to evaluate the opportunities presented by AI, ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.”
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:08AM (1 child)
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
This is a level of stupidity only reached by the "educated"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:05PM
Presently the "robber barons" and "moral busybodies" are both on the same team.
I'm sure you are also on the same team.
That team is the freedom loving & civil rights hating, pro life & anti living, lowest tax paying & highest subsidy receiving, most outraged & most privileged, loudest & least knowledgeable team of moral, economic and political contortionists.