Artificial Intelligence Questions.

Issues with Artificial Intelligence

• Who takes responsibility for the performance of an expert system—knowledge engineer, informant, programmer (software engineer), company that sold it, the buyer / consumer?

Should we stop a company from unplugging an expert system?

• What is the value of the development of AI as a field? For example, is it an appropriate place to put economic resources?

Raise a glass to the woderful and underappreciated AI
It’s Alive, the benefits of AI

• What are ethical issues associated with various applications of AI, for example, replacement of human workers, handing decision-making tasks to a computer?

Robotic Nation
When do you allow computers to make decisions for you?
Can computers make a life-or-death medical decision?

• What is the social impact of the use of “smart” machines on everyday life?

We have the technology
Smart Machines – what is the worst thing that could happen?

• What are the ethical issues related to military applications of AI, for example, smart weapons, reconnaissance, decision making?

Who do you trust more G.I. Joe or A.I. Joe?
The Unmanned Army

• What are the implications of creative production by computers using AI, for example, Aaron, an expert system, creates visual art?

“AARON exists; it generates objects that hold their own more than adequately, in human terms, in any gathering of similar, but human-produced, objects, and it does so with a stylistic consistency that reveals an identity as clearly as any human artist’s does. It does these things, moreover, without my own intervention. I do not believe that AARON constitutes an existence proof of the power of machines to think, or to be creative, or to be self-aware, to display any of those attributes coined specifically to explain something about ourselves. It constitutes an existence proof of the power of machines to do some of the things we had assumed required thought, and which we still suppose would require thought, and creativity, and self-awareness, of a human being.
If what AARON is making is not art, what is it exactly, and in what ways, other than its origin, does it differ from the “real thing?” If it is not thinking, what exactly is it doing?” Harold Cohen (1995)

Source: The Further Exploits of AARON, Painter