ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Over-socialization resulting from AI systems: News Paper, Cinema, Radio, TV, Games, Social network, … Enforcing group-think and lack of time for private deep thinking Breeding isolation between diverse views, and thus leading to unrest-violence-misunderstanding Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Privacy: Continuously and pervasive monitoring leads to… Loss of individual uniqueness Possible fatal error Even Database errors was serious enough! Destroying human creativity: individuals must be branded Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Security: Fatal hacking Cyber warfare Smart bombs Killer robots (soldiers, cops, drones, …) Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Replacement of humans: Utility function may not necessarily be appropriately designed (world, national, regional, social group,,,) Accountability is diffused: * auto piloted car in accident, * smart medicine failing, * collateral damage by robo-soldier, * racial discrimination by smart loan decider (IEEE got into standardizing it) * . . . . . Resulting laziness Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Understanding human intelligence via simulation with AI: Even at a very broad level: * How much do we want to know about us? Any limit? * And, why we want to know about us (hypothesis behind)? - Remember “behavioral psychology” and Skinner training paradigm? - Or, superior race of Eugenics? Our “knowledge” is always an increasing but finite - approximation of “infinite” Truth! Be careful in what we “do” with this knowledge. Engineers always face this: design the car in such a way that when its battery is not trustworthy we can replace with different battery type AI systems are designing only for the “present” not for the future! Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Rights of AI: Our value system is to protect: human survival, human civilization, national interest, …, individual human, animal, environment on Earth, … (in order of preference) Where does a smart agent (hardware or software) falls in this hierarchy? Saw the term recently: “robosexual” marrying a robot We eventually feel for any “complex” system: cars, pets, robots? “Robosexual” marrying robot?? Can I “insult” SIRI? There is a feedback loop - I also am affected negatively, even if SIRI is not! Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Value embedding in AI: Our value system is to protect: human survival, human civilization, national interest, …, individual human, animal, environment on Earth, … Asimov’s 3 rules for robots: 1) Protect human, 2) Obey human unless it violates rule 1, and 3) robots built by a robot must embed all three rules Value evolves in a society: often in opposite direction than previously Even within the same culture, even in your mind, values may be conflicting! AI juror, AI judge, AI attorney, AI politician, AI Financier,…? Facebook will censor “False news”, as they should, BUT, can they control it when they WILL need to, but their customers will get adapted to? Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Brain machine interface: Will it make one dependent on it? Adverse medical effects? Mentally stronger “harmful” person? (Imagine your evil-est person!) When to “allow” such extension? Will a doctor prevent “a harmful” person from wearing a glass? How to interface “beyond brain” aspect, if that exists? Can impedance mismatch happen? Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE “Singularity” and Super-intelligence Sorry, I do not subscribe to this: Intelligence is not 1D (IQ?) But, problems with AI, even domain dependent AI, are real Human intelligence is not just a brain… It is a good “approximate” starting point of science, but there is far more… Debasis Mitra

ETHICAL ISSUES WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE These are tough questions beyond technology, but involving technology Will evolve over time (e.g., Auto-car laws) Just let your “humanity” remain awake while you work on an AI project, even 1% may do… Stay involved, do not brush these issues aside Debasis Mitra