AI Safety Moves to the Forefront - EE Times Asia

Safety advocates call for a national AI testbed, with trust based on'engineering discipline'. The splashy unveiling of Tesla's robot assistant stokes the ongoing debate about AI safety and how automated systems can be tested and validated before they are unleashed on city streets and factory floors. The fear during the initial round of AI hyperbole focused on malevolent, self-replicating, HAL-like machines eventually overpowering their creators or roaming uncontrolled on battlefields. The debate has since become more pragmatic, with a sharper and welcome focus on safety. Specifically, how can we promote AI safety in ways the will allow human operators to trust autonomous systems in applications that for now remain well short of mission critical, requiring 99.999 percent reliability?