Lecture 13 - social artificial 2 Flashcards
1
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Privacy and surveillance concerns
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- AI facilitates collection and analysis of
personal, sensitive data - Social interaction with artificial agents as
additional data source: personal, sensitive
facts can be released to, or inferred by, social
agents
2
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Lack of transparency concerns
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- Machine learning and algorithmic principles
opaque to designers, programmers and users
3
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Automation & Employment concerns
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- Productivity gains -> Fewer humans are required
for the same output.
4
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Legality concerns
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- Social and civil rights for artificial agents?
- Laws and regulations for HAI
(marriage, criminal code, etc.)
5
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Physical hazards
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- Psychosocial risk factors
- Agent-caused injuries and damages
6
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Main concerns of military robots
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- A steady increase in the integration of AI in military systems is likely
- Arms-Race: significant international competition in military AI
- Military AI presents a range of risks:
- Ethical: Humanitarian implications
- Strategic: Increase war likelihood, conflict escalation, malicious actor proliferation
- Operational: Reliability, fragility and security of AI/Robotic systems
7
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Pros military robots
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- People need not fight anymore
- Military AI / robots might be more accurate, causing less collateral damage
- Increased defensive capabilities without compromising population
- Reduces costs and effort (soldier training, upkeep, etc.)
8
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Concerns sex bots
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- A steady increase in the development, sophistication is ongoing
- Market-Race: High consumer demand, and it’s increasing
- Potential to promote and normalize psychological and behavioural deviations
- Potential to discourage / replace humanhuman interaction
- Compromise notions of consent, aesthetics, and social exchange
- Might encourage acting out unacceptable, illegal tendencies.
- Trivializes intimacy and human connection
- Might provide a “sandbox” environment to “train” unacceptable / illegal practices
- May lead to psychological damage
