"“The public should have an accurate mental model of what we mean when we say artificial intelligence,” says Ryan Calo, who teaches law at University of Washington. Calo spoke last week at the first of four workshops the White House hosts this summer to examine how to address an increasingly AI-powered world.
Artificial intelligence is used for more than life choices and judicial outcomes. It’s also used to make immediate decisions about how, say, an autonomous car avoids a collision. The problem with trying to regulate these technologies is that they’re still being developed, says Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and one of the nation’s leading experts on self-driving cars.
Any kind of design requirements this early on could inhibit building a safer, more responsible machine, Smith says. That puts the onus on creators of autonomous vehicles to make the public safety case themselves."
- Date Published:05/30/2016
- Original Publication:Wired