IBM CEO Ginni Rometty lays out guidelines for ethical AI development - SiliconANGLE

With great power comes great responsibility: That was the gist of a set of principles for artificial intelligence development laid forth by IBM Corp. Chief Executive Ginni Rometty on Tuesday. Rometty (above) has made AI, or what IBM calls cognitive computing, the centerpiece of the tech giant's attempt to recharge its growth. In a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, she made the mostly optimistic case that AI, intelligently used, will be the foundation of the fourth industrial revolution. On the panel with Rometty were Ron Gutman, an entrepreneur whose relation to AI is based mostly on how it will transform healthcare, along with Joi Ito, head of MIT's media lab and leading spokesperson on AI ethics, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. But Rometty made perhaps the biggest splash, issuing a set of three principles that she called "Principles for the Cognitive Era."