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    Artificial intelligence and robotics raise important ethical issues that researchers must address to ensure these technologies benefit humanity. Key issues include misinformation spread through social media, job displacement from automation, privacy concerns, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, potential for algorithmic bias, need for regulation to balance innovation and safety, and how to develop superintelligence without posing an existential threat. Researchers advocate following principles like using AI and robotics responsibly as tools rather than equating them with humans, ensuring they advance rather than harm human interests, and developing them with a foundation of respect.

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    Artificial intelligence and robotics raise important ethical issues that researchers must address to ensure these technologies benefit humanity. Key issues include misinformation spread through social media, job displacement from automation, privacy concerns, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, potential for algorithmic bias, need for regulation to balance innovation and safety, and how to develop superintelligence without posing an existential threat. Researchers advocate following principles like using AI and robotics responsibly as tools rather than equating them with humans, ensuring they advance rather than harm human interests, and developing them with a foundation of respect.

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    Artificial intelligence and robotics raise important ethical issues that researchers must address to ensure these technologies benefit humanity. Key issues include misinformation spread through social media, job displacement from automation, privacy concerns, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, potential for algorithmic bias, need for regulation to balance innovation and safety, and how to develop superintelligence without posing an existential threat. Researchers advocate following principles like using AI and robotics responsibly as tools rather than equating them with humans, ensuring they advance rather than harm human interests, and developing them with a foundation of respect.

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    Ethical Issues Of Artificial

    Intelligence And Robotics

    Dr. wendy C. Nombrefia


    Southern Luzon State University
    Infanta Campus
    What is artificial intelligence?
    Artificial intelligence (AI), the ability of a
    digital computer or computer-
    controlled robot to perform tasks commonly
    associated with intelligent beings.
    AI is one of the technologies that could
    revolutionize the world, some people call it
    the electricity of the twenty first century.
    • The term is frequently applied to the project
    o f d eve l o p i n g syste m s e n d owe d w i t h
    the intellectual processes characteristic of
    humans, such as the ability to reason,
    discover meaning, generalize, or learn from
    past experience.
    What is robotics?
    • Robotics is a branch of engineering that
    involves the conception, design,
    manufacture, and operation of robots. This
    field overlaps with electronics, computer
    science, artificial intelligence, mechatronics,
    nanotechnology and bioengineering.

    A_Brief_History_of_Robotics.mp4
    AI and robotics are going to
    shape our future.

    10 issues that professionals and


    researchers need to address in order
    to desing intelligent systems that
    help humanity.
    • Misinformation and Fake News
    The flow of misinformation together with our
    natural inability of perceiving reality based on
    evidence (a phenomenon called confirmation bias) is
    a threat to having an informed democracy.
    Examples:
     social media can massively spread misinformation
    and fake news.
    advances in computer vision make possible to
    completely fake a video
    • Job Displacement

    Automation and technological advance


    will produce mass unemployment.
     By 2030, around 30% of the jobs will
    be automatized.

     Governments and companies should provide


    workers with tools to adapt to these changes.
    • Privacy
    The importance of privacy is all over the
    news lately due to the Cambridge
    Analyticascandal, where 87 million Facebook
    profiles were stolen and used to influence the
    US election and Brexit campaign. Privacy is
    a human right and should be protected against
    misuse.
    • Cibersecurity
    Cibersecurity is one of the big gest
    concerns of governments and companies,
    specially banks. AI can help protect
    against these vulnerabilities, but it can be
    a l s o u s e d b y h a c ke r s t o f i n d n e w
    sophisticated ways of attacking
    institutions.
    • Mistakes of AI
    As any other technological system,
    AI systems can make mistakes. It is a
    common misconception that robots are
    infalible and infinitely precise.
    • Military Robots
    There is an ongoing debate about
    controlling the development of military
    robots and banning autonomous
    weapons. An open letter, from 25,000
    researchers and professionals of AI, asks
    to ban autonomous weapons without
    human supervision to avoid an
    international military AI arms race.
    • Algorithmic Bias
    We have to work hard to avoid bias and
    discrimination when developing AI algorithms.
    An specific example was face detection
    u s i n g H a a r C a s ca d e s , t h at h a s a l o we r
    detection rate in dark-skinned people than in
    light-skinned people. This happens because
    the algorithm is designed to find a double T
    pattern in a grayscale image of the person’s
    face, corresponding to the eyebrows, nose
    and mouth. This pattern is more difficult to
    find in a person with dark skin.
    • Regulation
    Existing laws have not been developed with AI in
    mind, however, that does not mean that AI-based
    product and services are unregulated.
    Governments must balance support for innovation
    with the need to ensure consumer safety by
    holding the makers of AI systems responsible for
    harm caused by unreasonable practices.
     Policymakers, researchers and professionals
    should work together to make sure that AI and
    robotics provide a benefit to humanity.
    • Superintelligence
    Some tech leaders have shown concerns
    about the possible threats of AI, one example
    was Elon Musk, who claimed that AI is more
    risky than North Korea. These words
    generated a strong criticism from the scientific
    community.
    Super intelligence is generally regarded
    to a state where a robot starts to recursively
    improve itself, reaching a point that easily
    surpass the most intelligent human by orders
    of magnitude.
    • Robot Rights
    Should robots have rights?
    Robots should be granted the right to
    exist and perform their mission, but this
    should be linked to the duty of serving
    humans (suggestion from a debate).
    In 2017, Sophia the robot was granted
    the citizenship of Saudi Arabia.
    Sophia
    - a social humanoid robot devloped by Hong
    Kong-based company Hanson Robotics.
    - was activated on Feb. 14, 2016
    - able to display more than 50 facial expressions

    Will_Smith_Tries_Online_Dating.mp4
    Ethical Issues of Artificial
    Intelligence
    • Over-socialization
    - News paper, Cinema, Radio, TV, Games,
    Social Network...
    - Enforcing group-think and lack of time
    for private deep thinking.
    - Breeding isolation between diverse
    views, and thus leading to unrest-
    violence-misunderstanding.
    • Privacy
    - Loss of individual uniqueness
    - Possible fatal error
    Even database error was serious
    enough!
    - Destroying human creativity
    • Security
    - fatal hacking
    - Cyber warfare
    - Smart bombs
    - Killer robots (soldiers, cops, drones, ...)
    • Replacement of humans
    - Utility functions may not be necessarily
    at p ro p e r l e ve l ( Wo r l d , N a t i o n a l ,
    Regional, Social group,...)
    - Accountability is diffused (autopiloted
    car accident, smart medicine failing,
    collateral damage by robo-soldier,
    racial descrimination by smart loan
    decider, ...)
    Rules and ethical considerations
    of robotic technology
    • The Rule of Responsible Use
    * Robotics as a type of functional
    technology designed to get things
    done in a better or more efficient way
    than human performance.

    * It ’s important to use technology


    responsibly and to treat it as a tool not
    to be abused.
    • Distinguishing Machine and Human
    * People are sometimes quick to assume that
    there isn’t too much difference between the
    two or to project human traits onto machines.

    * An important general rule is to recognize


    that machines are not human and that
    humans are not machines. In fact, using this
    different language of “machine” or “tool” to
    refer to robotics can be helpful in order to
    encourage responsible use.
    • Technology Should Advance Human Interest
    * Robotics is no different in this way than
    c e l l u l a r p h o n e o r t ra n s p o r t a t i o n
    technology. They should be viewed as
    tools for advancing human interest and
    the better good of all society.

    * If a robot in any way harms human


    interest or doesn’t cater to the overall
    global good, it is not being used
    responsibly.
    • Robotics are Primarily Functional

    Robotics are primarily designed


    for a function or a use. They should
    have a clearly identified function and
    should be approached as functional
    machines. In this light, using a robot
    intentionally means using it for a
    specific purpose.
    • Respect Robotics
    At the end of the day, the most important
    thing to keep in mind when using robotics ethically is
    to respect them. This does not mean equating them
    with humans–at least, not necessarily. But it does
    mean using them responsibly and respecting what
    they offer society.
    Because they offer so much potential to make
    our lives better, we have to respect robotics and use
    them mindfully. Foundational respect will inform
    wise decisions so that humanity can continue to
    evolve in the best way possible.
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    of_humanity__-_Rise_2017.mp4

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