SafArtInt 2016

The computer science community has been exploring the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in systems for more than a half-century. In the last few years, AI development has reached a threshold of practicability, and AI capability is now emerging in sectors ranging from vehicles, logistics, and military systems to health care, financial services, and smart cities. The economic and societal impacts could be dramatic, and investment in the development of AI applications is now a world-wide phenomenon. Many technical leaders now believe that the principal limits on exploiting AI derive primarily from our confidence in the safety of these smart systems – that they will operate in a safe and controlled manner. Some AI experts have asserted that the ability to assure safety and control is more important to the future of AI even than improvements in the AI algorithms themselves.