ai and humanity, ai development, ai ethics, artificial intelligence

The U.S. Just Issued the World’s Strongest Action Yet on Regulating AI

U.S. President Joe Biden released a wide-ranging and ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) — catapulting the U.S. to the front of conversations about regulating this technology. In doing so, the U.S. is leapfrogging over other states in the race to rule over this technology. Europe previously led the way with its AI Act, ...

Troy Oakes

President Joe Biden signing an executive order.

A Self-Driving Car’s Choice: Who Lives and Who Dies?

When faced with a choice of either crashing into a young person or a group of adults, what will a self-autonomous vehicle choose? And who is ultimately responsible for this choice — the driver or the car manufacturer? Who provides the ethical framework on which to base decisions for the self-driving car? On what basis ...

Armin Auctor

A highway.

New Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Personality

In the near future, when you apply for a job or join a new team at work, a machine using artificial intelligence, rather than a human, may assess your personality traits to see if you are suitable. Realizing that people could manipulate conventional personality tests, a team of computing and psychology researchers from Macquarie, CSIRO, ...

Troy Oakes

A robot using artificial intelligence.

Google Fears Conservative Ideas Seeping Into AI Ethics

Google was forced to shut down its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board just a few days after its formation. Some of its employees and activist groups had complained that one of the panel’s members was too conservative. The controversy The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) formed by Google was initially comprised of eight experts ...

Armin Auctor

The Google matrix.

How Ancient Indian Texts Are Helping Scientists Teach Ethics to AI

In a move that validates the wisdom and ingenuity of ancient civilizations, a group of researchers from the Institute of Logic and Computation at TU Wien, Austria, is using Indian religious texts, written in Sanskrit, to teach ethics to AI. The texts, called the Vedas, are believed to have been written down about 4,000 years ago. ...

Nspirement Staff