2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI - Notes from Part 1: Diagnosis

Joichi Ito,Samantha Bates

doi:10.31859/20190307.2125

Abstract

2019 Applied Ethical and Governance Challenges in AI - Notes from Part 1: Diagnosis

Highlights

This paper has been drafted by Dr Heather Roff and Richard Moyes in the context of a grant awarded to Arizona State University, in partnership with Article 36, by the Future of Life Institute to further develop thinking on ‘meaningful human control’ as a conceptual approach to the control of artificial intelligence in the context of autonomous weapons systems
With the recent rise in concerns over ‘autonomous weapons systems’ (AWS), civil society, the international community and others have focused their attention on the potential benefits and problems associated with these systems
In an attempt to understand the implications of autonomous technologies, including but not limited to AWS, the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) has convened a number of expert discussions leading to various reports, and numerous other think tanks and institutions around the world have convened workshops and meetings on the same or similar issues

Summary

Richard Moyes

Create a dataset on presently deployed weapons systems in top 5 weapons expor2ng countries. Data from Stockholm Interna2onal Peace Research Ins2tute, Top 100 Arms Producing Companies Publically available informa2on on all systems produced by each of these companies. Create a conceptual framework for the concept of “Meaningful Human Control;” define values associated with it. Briefing paper for delegates at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). This paper has been drafted by Dr Heather Roff and Richard Moyes in the context of a grant awarded to Arizona State University, in partnership with Article 36, by the Future of Life Institute (www.futureoflife.org) to further develop thinking on ‘meaningful human control’ as a conceptual approach to the control of artificial intelligence in the context of autonomous weapons systems

Introduction

Key Variables

Autonomy Indices