I don't want to tell data scientists and AI developers what to do in any given situation. I want to give scientists and engineers tools for thinking about problems. We surely can't predict all the problems and ethical issues in advance; we need to be the kind of people who can have effective discussions about these issues as we anticipate and discover them.

KUSHIRO, HOKKAIDO – A 20-year-old man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a beautician in Hokkaido last year wanted to replicate killings he had simulated in video games, prosecutors said Tuesday. The man pleaded guilty in the Kushiro District Court to the murder of 31-year-old Erika Konno and the destruction of her body in August last year in Hokkaido's Tokachi region. His name is being withheld because he was 19 -- a minor -- at the time of the incident. The prosecutors said in their opening statement that he started taking an interest in death and dead bodies when he was in high school. "He committed the crime after deciding that he wanted to kill someone with a knife the way he would in video games to see how he would change as a person," they claimed.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be a revolution on how we interact with the world around us as part of a connected environment. As part of the series of guest posts named Thoughts Leaders' Corner, here is a very interesting article from Aric Dromi, Chief Futurologist at Volvo Car Group and cofounder of TEMPUS.MOTU. I hope you will enjoy it and if you are interested to the legal issues of the Internet of Things that are part of this digital revolution, check my blog post here! We are living in an experience based interaction simulation. A place that is governed by transparent intelligence technologies.

Industries from health care to the legal sector face being being disrupted by the latest advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), an expert warns, prompting a renewed warning in the wake of Donald Trump's US election victory. Jon Williams, an analyst with professional services firm PwC, said governments in Australia need to have a serious debate about how to prepare for huge changes in the workforce. "I think over the next couple of years, governments have to develop policies that allow them to support the development of new jobs and new industries or we'll see what we saw in the recent US election, where there's a huge disaffected group whose job in a factory disappeared and they haven't been able to replace it," Mr Williams told the ABC. "The next five to 10 years will see jobs in the professions, in medicine, in the legal profession, in professional services starting to be replaced by computers and robots and machine learning." Seven months after the biggest robotic drug dispensary in the southern hemisphere went live at Perth's Fiona Stanley Hospital, pharmacist Ken Tam is keen to talk up the benefits.

A discussion on algorithmic accountability and transparency is missing from Europe's digital economy framework. Citizens need assurances that machines are treating them fairly, writes Liisa Jaakonsaari. Algorithms are the fundamental, invisible building blocks of our digital societies. However, there is currently no legislation, best practice or guidance on algorithmic accountability or transparency. A dialogue among tech companies, consumers and regulators is urgently needed not only in Europe, but globally, to ensure that algorithms are audited and that citizens' rights are safeguarded.

The day before the election, as millions of Americans were feeling confident that the vast majority of the country shared their opinions, a pair of researchers at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute published a paper that looked closely at something many of us ignored: the provenance of political tweets. Where do they come from? How many are, in reality, made by humans? And if not, who is designing these crude straw-bots? Analyzing Twitter during three televised debates, they discovered that 20% of all political tweets were made by bots.

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Report discusses "special responsibilities for government which follow from its use of artificial intelligence and big data" A report by the Government Office for Science has warned that making the most of artificial intelligence, including in the public sector, will require the government to pay strong attention to ethics and governance. The report, Artificial intelligence: opportunities and implications for the future of decision making by government chief scientific advisor, Sir Mark Walport and Home Office permanent secretary Mark Sedwill, says it is important that the government actively works to bring this about. "Reaping the benefits of this revolution in information technology will require an approach to ethics and governance that enables innovation, builds trust among citizens, establishes a stable environment for businesses and investors, and fosters appropriate access to the data necessary for computer science to develop this technology still further," the report said. "The right form of governance for artificial intelligence, and indeed for the use of digital data more widely, is not self-evident. It is important to consider forms of data governance that cover all elements of the increasingly complex space, from responsibly generating data from people's behaviour to remaining accountable for autonomous software agents. Additionally, any approach adopted must be flexible, able to adapt to new uses and more advanced forms of artificial intelligence. There are many models that can be considered. But the important task is to set out what needs to be done before considering how it is to be achieved."

Once the preserve of science-fiction movies, artificial intelligence is one of the hottest areas of research right now. While the idea behind AI is to make our lives easier, there is concern that as the technology becomes more advanced, we may be heading for disaster. How can we be sure, for instance, that artificially intelligent robots will make ethical choices? There are plenty of instances of artificial intelligence gone wrong. The case of the rude and racist chatbot** Chatbot Tay, Microsoft's AI millennial chatbot, was meant to be a friendly chatbot that would sound like a teenage girl and engage in light conversation with her followers on Twitter.