Letting Facebook control AI regulation is like letting the NRA control gun laws

We wouldn't trust a doctor employed by a tobacco company. We wouldn't let the automobile industry set vehicle-emissions limits. We wouldn't want an arms maker to write the rules of warfare. But right now, we are letting tech companies shape the ethical development of AI. In an attempt to help shape the future of AI, in October 2017, DeepMind, the world-leading AI company acquired by Google in 2014, launched a new ethics board "to help technologists put ethics into practice, and to help society anticipate and direct the impact of AI so that it works for the benefit of all."