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posted by n1 on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the skynet-wants-to-know dept.

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.”

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:15AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:15AM (#523756) Journal
    But TMB, I think it's only fair that if we're going to implement an algorithm for the greater good of humanity, it be my algorithm.
  • (Score: 3, Funny) by inertnet on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:21AM

    by inertnet (4071) on Sunday June 11 2017, @11:21AM (#523757) Journal

    No, please no Al Gore-isms.