Paul Chadwick, The Guardian; To regulate AI we need new laws, not just a code of ethics
"For a sense of Facebook’s possible future EU operating environment,
Zuckerberg should read the Royal Society’s new publication about the
ethical and legal challenges of governing artificial intelligence. One contribution
is by a senior European commission official, Paul Nemitz, principal
adviser, one of the architects of the EU’s far-reaching General Data
Protection Regulation, which took effect in May this year.
Nemitz makes clear the views are his own and not necessarily those of
the European commission, but the big tech companies might reasonably
see his article, entitled “Constitutional democracy and technology in
the age of artificial intelligence”, as a declaration of intent.
“We need a new culture of technology and business development for the
age of AI which we call ‘rule of law, democracy and human rights by
design’,” Nemitz writes. These core ideas should be baked into AI,
because we are entering “a world in which technologies like AI become
all pervasive and are actually incorporating and executing the rules
according to which we live in large part”.
To Nemitz, “the absence of such framing for the internet economy has
already led to a widespread culture of disregard of the law and put
democracy in danger, the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal being only the latest wake-up call”."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
To regulate AI we need new laws, not just a code of ethics; The Guardian, October 28, 2018
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