5. Top 9 Ethical Issues in AI (Jinhee) - Lucia922/IT115-WiKi GitHub Wiki
Intelligent machine systems are transforming our lives for the better. As these systems become more capable, our world becomes more efficient and consequently richer. Then which issues and conversations keep AI experts up at night?
1. Unemployment
What happens after the end of jobs?
Automation will make labor disappear. How we are going to spend our time? If we succeed with the transition, one day we might look back and think that it was barbaric that we were required to sell the majority of our waking time just to be able to live.
2. Inequality
How do we distribute the wealth created by machines?
By using artificial intelligence, companies can drastically cut down on relying on the human workforce, and this means that revenues will go to fewer people. Wealth gap will be widening.
3. Humanity
How do machines affect our behavior and interaction?
There is need for software, which will direct human attention and triggering certain actions. When used right, this could evolve into an opportunity to lead society towards more beneficial behavior. However, in the wrong hands it could prove detrimental.
4. Artificial stupidity
How can we guard against mistakes?
If we rely on AI to bring us into a new world of labour, security and efficiency, we need to ensure that the machine performs as planned, and that people can't overpower it to use it for their own ends.
5. Racist robots
How do we eliminate AI bias?
We shouldn't forget that AI systems are created by humans, who can be biased and judgmental.
6. Security
How do we keep AI safe from adversaries?
AI systems that can cause damage if used maliciously. Because these fight won't be fought on the battleground only, cybersecurity will become even more important.
7. Evil genies
How do we protect against unintended consequences?
Imagine an AI system that is asked to eradicate cancer in the world. After a lot of computing, it spits out a formula that does, in fact, bring about the end of cancer - by killing everyone on the planet.
8. Singularity
How do we stay in control of a complex intelligent system?
The question about artificial intelligence: will it, one day, have an advantage over us? We can't rely on just "pulling the plug" either, because a sufficiently advanced machine may anticipate this move and defend itself. This is what some call the "singularity": the point in time when human beings are no longer the most intelligent beings on earth.
9. Robot rights
How do we define the humane treatment of AI?
Once we consider machines as entities that can perceive, feel and act, it's not a huge leap to ponder their legal status. Should they be treated like animals of comparable intelligence? Will we consider the suffering of "feeling" machines?