Ethics is a topic of conversation everywhere in the AI community. Many organizations are flaunting the ethical standards that they’ve created or revamped for their organizations, trying to show that they are on the right side of history. But while it’s clear to most people that the machines should follow ethical rules, I don’t think we’ve done a good job of explaining the limitations of implementing those rules and why we still need to develop an ethical framework for machines. After all, don’t we already have ethical frameworks to use? Yes, we do, but for the behavior of people in society, not machines automating our world. A productive conversation about regulating AI will depend on us figuring out how we even translate our stated values, whatever they may be, into a language that machines can understand.
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