Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Ethics? - Disruption Hub

Question the ethics of AI, and you quickly find yourself down a rabbit hole of complicated considerations. Making and maintaining an artificially intelligent system that can uphold a moral code is a multilayered issue – for starters, how do you define morality itself? The late Professor Stephen Hawking famously predicted that the development of super intelligent AI would lead to the downfall of humanity. Avoiding this fate could hinge on how we build even the most rudimentary AI systems. According to Harry Armstrong, Head of Technology Futures at Nesta, the innovation foundation, organisations first need to understand the ethical impact of'narrow AI'.