Applauding IEEE's Efforts in Establishing Artificial Intelligence Guidelines - IEEE - The Institute

The recently published "Ethically Aligned Design," a 136-page report by IEEE, boldly goes where no report has gone before, with more than 225 mentions of ethical issues surrounding the development of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. That's in contrast to other reports, like the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)," published last year by Stanford. "AI100" stated, "The difference between an arithmetic calculator and a human brain is not one of kind, but of scale, speed, degree of autonomy, and generality." That frightening statement makes clear that the "AI100" authors did not appreciate what the IEEE report's authors so clearly understand: People are not machines, and machines are not people. The authors of "Ethically Aligned Design" assume that there are "users" and there are "systems," and that excellence in design is when users are well served by their systems.