Digital assistants should discuss with 'moral AI' whether to report illegal or immoral activity

Smart assistants could come with a'moral AI' to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law. That's the suggestion by academics at the University of Bergen, Norway, who touted the idea at the ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society in Hawaii. They suggest that domestic bots such as Amazon Echo and Google Home should be enhanced with moral AI. This would enable them to weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance. Marija Slavkovik, Associate Professor the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, led the research behind the idea.