Archive for the ‘Future’ Category:
52 Books in 52 Weeks
As part of the up coming new years resolution I wish to read more and be more widly read about the world in general. While doing some research I came across this challenge to read 52 books in 52 weeks
It’s a grand plan and one that probably won’t finish, but I plan to give it a go and see what happens, in the absolute hope that I will infact be better educated by the end of the year.
Ethical Robots
I have just finished a semester doing a subject called ‘Professional Issues in Information Technology‘ which I found immensely fascinating and out of curiosity and a break from exam study I started looking up some topics relating to it on the Internet and I came across this article:
No sex please, robot, just clean the floor
I’ll just mention a few good quotes here:
“We have to manage the ethics of the scientists making the robots and the artificial ethics inside the robots.”
…identified key areas that include: ensuring human control of robots; preventing illegal use; protecting data acquired by robots; and establishing clear identification and traceability of the machines.
“Scientists must start analysing these kinds of questions and seeing if laws or regulations are needed to protect the citizen,” said Verruggio. “Robots will develop strong intelligence, and in some ways it will be better than human intelligence.
How far should robots be allowed to influence people’s lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy? “The question is what authority are we going to delegate to these machines?” said Professor Ronald Arkin, a roboticist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “Are we, for example, going to give robots the ability to execute lethal force, or any force, like crowd control?”
The whole idea is that there will be a team drawing up a code of ethics for both robots/AI and the scientists who create them.
I totally agree with the article above but there are few things that got me thinking that I want to elaborate on.
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