A New AI Ethics Center Investigates Growing Anxiety About Intelligent Machines - IntelligentHQ

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence is scaring many people, that feel threatened by the huge impact automation might have on employment, and other areas such as the development of autonomous weapons. A question growing in the heads of experts, deeply aware of the impact of AI on society, is how to understand and predict what can happen, when increasingly automated complex systems fail, or go off track. As John Danaher wrote in the Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies, "Artificial intelligence is a classic risk/reward technology. If developed safely and properly, it could be a great boon. Trying to deliver some answers to this and other questions, Carnegie Mellon University just launched a new center, entitled K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies.