Courtney Linder, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Some students, faculty remain uneasy about CMU's Army AI Task Force
"Earlier this month, the Artificial Intelligence Task Force
was introduced at the National Robotics Engineering Center. It’s meant
as a hub for universities and private-industry partners to conduct
research on AI in military applications.
While those on campus recognize CMU’s storied history with the U.S.
Department of Defense — including contracting with the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a regular basis and the hundreds of
millions of defense dollars flowing into the university’s Software
Engineering Institute — critics say they wish they had more information
on this new work with the Army.
“We’re concerned that [the university] didn’t ask for any campus
input or announce it,” said Wilson Ekern, a sophomore studying technical
writing and German. “There’s a pretty big effort to get engineering and
computer science students plugged into this military industrial
complex.”
His sentiments come at a time when Silicon Valley and the tech
industry, at large, are toeing a gray line between creating useful
innovations for defense and civilian protection and producing autonomous
weapons with the potential to kill."
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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Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Some students, faculty remain uneasy about CMU's Army AI Task Force; The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 18, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
In Memory of Lawrence Roberts The man who actually got the internet going has passed away.; Slate, January 3, 2019
Morten Bay, Slate; In Memory of Lawrence Roberts
The man who actually got the internet going has passed away.
"Why, you may ask, have you never heard of Larry Roberts if he was so influential in developing and implementing technologies still in use five decades later?
First of all, no single person is the “mother” or “father” or the internet. Hundreds of people contributed to its emergence, even in the early years. Second, we unfortunately often confuse achievements with likability and communication skills. The people lauded in the media as internet “fathers,” such as Vint Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock, and Tim Berners-Lee, have all made invaluable contributions. But they’re also excellent storytellers and charming personalities. The soft-spoken Larry Roberts and his stern demeanor didn’t work well on TV, and he spoke in technical facts rather than sound bites. But Roberts, driven by his credo of faster knowledge sharing for civilization’s sake, did more than anyone else to get the job done. Where others theorized, Roberts executed."
Thursday, September 27, 2018
92% Of AI Leaders Now Training Developers In Ethics, But 'Killer Robots' Are Already Being Built; Forbes, September 26, 2018
John Koetsier, Forbes; 92% Of AI Leaders Now Training Developers In Ethics, But 'Killer Robots' Are Already Being Built
""Organizations have begun addressing concerns and aberrations that AI has been known to cause, such as biased and unfair treatment of people,” Rumman Chowdhury, Responsible AI Lead at Accenture Applied Intelligence, said in a statement. “Organizations need to move beyond directional AI ethics codes that are in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm.’ They need to provide prescriptive, specific and technical guidelines to develop AI systems that are secure, transparent, explainable, and accountable – to avoid unintended consequences and compliance challenges that can be harmful to individuals, businesses, and society.""
""Organizations have begun addressing concerns and aberrations that AI has been known to cause, such as biased and unfair treatment of people,” Rumman Chowdhury, Responsible AI Lead at Accenture Applied Intelligence, said in a statement. “Organizations need to move beyond directional AI ethics codes that are in the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath to ‘do no harm.’ They need to provide prescriptive, specific and technical guidelines to develop AI systems that are secure, transparent, explainable, and accountable – to avoid unintended consequences and compliance challenges that can be harmful to individuals, businesses, and society.""
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