Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, or LAWS, are a “special” class of weapon systems that can independently search for and engage targets based on a computerized system; they can destroy a target without manual human control. US policy does not prohibit the development or use of LAWS, yet, the country does not have any in its…
President Trump signs executive order to “recognize” the potential that artificial intelligence has on national security and the economy. The order revokes previous barriers to AI leadership, ensuring that the United States remains a global, technological leader. The President is framing AI as a tool of economic and political competitiveness, as well as the creation…
The cover image for this post was generated by AI. The prompt “generate an image for a post describing AI art” was placed into ChatGPT, and the result was interesting. This begins to beg the question: is AI-generated art real art? The arguments for AI art: The arguments against AI art: What makes AI art…
If a machine operates in a way that is unfavorable, who is held liable? The responsibility gap tries to answer that question – is it the manufacturer or the machine itself that is held responsible? The responsibility gap occurs when the line between who to blame for an action, whether is AI or humans, begins…
Alan Turing asks the fundamental question: can machines think? Turing proposes a way to answer this question: the Imitation Game. The Imitation Game, also known as the Turing Test, seeks to assess a machine’s ability to replicate behavior to that of a human. The game consists of a human “judge” that engages in conversation with…
Israel has reportedly developed new artificial intelligence technologies to gain an advantage in the War in Gaza. This article analyzes the ethical dilemmas of this new technology and the use of AI in war as a whole. The country has been using the War in Gaza to “test” new and artificially intelligent technologies – even…
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (the creator of ChatGPT), had recently introduced laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence. These laws provide a vision into the future of AI that rely on three observations: “intelligence scaling with resources, decreasing usage costs, and super-exponential socioeconomic value growth”. Intelligence scaling with resources refers t o…
Regina Rini discusses how deepfakes are often threaten what we call the “epistemic backstop,” or the trust that people put in visual systems – whether that be videos or images – when deciding what is real and what is not. For Rini, deepfakes threaten this system. Deepfakes can easily fabricate false information (or, false evidence)…
Cathy O’Neil poses the question: what if the algorithms that decide so many things are wrong? What if we are putting out blind faith into big data? We all use algorithms – they’re seen in everyday life. From social media to mechanical engineering and algorithmic bias, a lot concerning big data can go wrong. O’Neil…
Michael Haenlein and Andreas Kaplan go in depth on the development of artificial intelligence. From the roots to the modernity of AI, Haenlein and Kaplan go into machine learning models, the challenges of AI, and the future of it. They start from the early years, or the “birth” of AI, and go into what the…