Transcript Professional Issues. Artificial Intelligence.

Professional Issues.
Artificial Intelligence.
Blay Whitby
Professional Issues.
Artificial Intelligence.
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What is AI? (no clear answers)
A brief history of AI
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The social/technological split
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AI as technology
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The Social Implications of AI
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The Moral Implications of AI
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms:
1.GOFAI.
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2.Neural Nets
3. Situated Robotics
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms:
1.GOFAI.
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The route to intelligence was seen as manipulation of
explicit symbolic knowledge.
(NB. This stuffs works and is in use now)
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms:
2. Neural Computing.
ANNs
PDP
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The route to intelligence was seen as through programs
that (loosely) imitate neural behaviour.
(NB. This stuffs works and is in use now)
A brief history of AI.
3 Paradigms:
2. Situated Robotics .
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The route to intelligence was seen as building real
physical systems situated in real environments.
(NB. This stuffs works (a bit) and may be in use now)
A brief history of AI.
In spite of a wealth of technological successes there is
no sign of :
1) Animal-level intelligence (and that includes insects).
2) Machines with ‘common sense’ or general
knowledge.
3) Robots taking over the world.
The Social/Technological division
(This is very interesting in the case of AI)
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What sort of technology is likely to be in use in the next
10, 50, 100 years?
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What will be the social implications of this - if any?
Artificial Intelligence as a technology.
What, exactly, can we expect?
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Unlikely to be a single, simple breakthrough.
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Creeping AI':Smarter' machinery of all sorts.
Better (more human-like?) interfaces.
'Knowledge technology’.
Influence of AI ideas on other fields.
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The social implications of AI.
(obviously all computing social implications apply)
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Human Control
AI must (at the very least) make us consider non-human agents of various
sorts. We need to debate where this is acceptable and where not.
There are many implications of this:
Legal status of AI systems
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Legal use of AI system
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Moral status of AI systems
It all depends on what we consider to be the proper human role. Note This
is a human question, not a technical one.
The moral implications of AI.
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Does ascribing intelligence involve a moral judgement?
Could a machine ever make a moral judgement or
decision?
Could a machine ever make a legal judgement or decision?
Could a machine advise in legal or moral cases?
Could an intelligent machine ever have moral rights?
Is AI dehumanising?
Do people do AI because they are dehumanized?