Delegation, relinquishment, and responsibility: The prospect of expert robots

Technology as Moral Proxy: Autonomy and Paternalism by Design

“…Though Jane is a fictional character, her experiences as described are consistent with those accounts [10]. Jane is at high risk of ventricular arrhythmias, a condition that causes her to unexpectedly experience life-threatening abnormal cardiac rhythms.…”

“…When it comes to sophisticated automation technologies -robots and the like -some have argued that the combined effects of their embodiment and behavior require us to place them in an ontological category of their own, "somewhere between object and agent" [9]. I have elsewhere adopted the ontological middle ground and argued that it helps us to more completely and accurately characterize what it is that sophisticated automation technologies accomplish in the use context [10]. But in constructing an ethically informed design framework (which I turn to shortly) I can just as easily remain agnostic on the ontological point.…”

Eight grand challenges for value sensitive design from the 2016 Lorentz workshop

“…Additionally, these systems can rapidly change in their behavior and capabilities, due to the ease of upgrading software (Bahler 2016;Stone 2009;Talbot 2014). Second, intelligent algorithms based on machine learning may be unpredictable by design, eroding the traditional causal link between designers and the behavior of their technologies (Millar and Kerr 2016). Third, the speed of intelligent algorithms will outpace our ability to monitor or respond to them in real time, further eroding our ability to meaningfully control them (Wallach and Allen 2009).…”

The Ethical AI Lawyer: What is Required of Lawyers When They Use Automated Systems?

“…If those involved in the creation of a complex AI system cannot know what its eventual outputs might be, it is difficult to demonstrate foreseeability of harm or intention to cause harm. 118 The number of people, both professionalised and not, who may be involved in engineering a piece of software adds to this complexity and potentially leaves a liability vacuum. 119 There is, as explored by Gasser and Schmitt, the possibility that the AI industry will self-regulate or self-impose some form of certification on its own products and services.…”