AI Ethics Effort Starts at IEEE EE Times

Today, the IEEE kicked off a broad initiative to make ethics a part of the design process for systems using artificial intelligence. The effort, in the works for more than a year, hopes to spark conversations that lead to consensus-driven actions and has already generated three standards efforts. The society published a 138-page report today that outlines a smorgasbord of issues at the intersection of AI technology and values. They range from how to identify and handle privacy around personal information to how to define and audit human responsibilities for autonomous weapon systems. The report raises a laundry list of provocative questions, such as whether mixed-reality systems could be used for mind control or therapy.