Making AI Systems Fairer Will Require Time, Guidelines

Christoph Lutge, director of the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at Germany's Technical University of Munich, said there is "a chance that these AI systems might be fairer eventually, but they will need guidelines." In January, the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence was established at Germany's Technical University of Munich (TUM), with initial funding from a five-year, $7.5-million grant from Facebook. The Institute has issued its first call for proposals, and an advisory board was recently appointed. The Institute's director, Christoph Lütge, holds the Peter Löscher Chair in Business Ethics at TUM. Lütge recently spoke about ethics in artificial intelligence (AI) generally, and the new Institute specifically. Can you give an example of the type of ethical question in AI that the Center might be dealing with?