Asilomar AI Principles: Ethics to Guide a Top-Down Control Regime

Get 1,200 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and 2,500 other businesspeople and academics, such as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Ray Kurzweil, and David Chalmers, to all endorse one document about AI ethics. You have the Asilomar AI Principles with serious sound bite power: Experts agree on a humanistic AI ethics program! Do the Principles advance a worthy cause? Reading the text of the Asilomar Principles, however, you get a few vague ethical aspirations offered to guide a top-down control regime. The points do it subtly, so as the holographic Dr. Lanning advised in I, Robot (2004), "you have to ask the right questions."