Scientists Say Controlling A.I. Will Be Impossible for 3 Reasons

Holding artificial intelligence accountable for its actions is easier said than done, predicts a team of British researchers. In a paper published this week in the journal Science Robotics, researchers Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt, and Luciano Floridi point out that policing robotics is extremely difficult. And as artificial intelligence becomes more widespread, it's going to become a greater problem for society. There are three discrete reasons robots and A.I. are going to be hard to regulate: robots and artificial intelligences are extremely diverse in application, construction, and transparency. The problem we face in policing A.I. is exemplified with the Random DarkNet Shopper, an A.I. built by a group of Swiss artists to buy random items from the darknet in late 2014.