«Breaking News» Digital assistants should discuss with 'moral AI' whether to report illegal or immoral activity

Smart assistants could come with a 'moral AI' to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law. 

That's the suggestion by academics at the University of Bergen, Norway, who touted the idea at the ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society in Hawaii.

They suggest that domestic bots such as Amazon Echo and Google Home should be enhanced with moral AI.

This would enable them to weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance. 

Orwellian future? Scientists suggest that digital assistants should weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance

Marija Slavkovik, Associate Professor the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, led the research behind the idea.

She suggested that digital assistants possess an ethical awareness that simultaneously represents both the owner and the authorities - or, in the case of a minor, their parents.    

The devices would then have an internal 'discussion' about suspect behaviour, allowing them to weed-out conflicting demands between the law and personal freedoms, before arriving at the 'best' course of action.

However, there would be room for compromise because the world itself is not black and white.

'Ethical behaviour is not consistent across societies or individuals, so the AIs would be flexible allowing them to be geared to better reflect local law and the preferences of the owner,' Dr Slavkovik told New Scientist. 

How much information could they gather? Most bots don’t have smell sensors, but they do have microphones and cameras - which could catch illegal activity

However, the very concept creates its own moral maze - specifically, whether computers should have the ability to make human decisions.   

'Humans and human situations are far messier than this method makes out,' Beth Singler from the University of Cambridge added.  

'Some might want it dealt with within the family, while others may take a hard line and seek police involvement. This disparity is likely to be found in all the groups of people'.  

Eerie future: Last year, in April 2018, The House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee said ethics need to be put at the centre of the development of AI

Last year, in April 2018, The House of Lords Artificial Intelligence Committee said ethics need to be put at the centre of the development of AI.

The peers said international safeguards must be established and warned it was particularly crucial here with Britain poised to become a world leader in the controversial technological field. 

The committee insisted AI needs to be developed for the common good and that the 'autonomous power to hurt, destroy or deceive human beings should never be vested in artificial intelligence'.

The report also stressed that AI should also not be used to diminish the data rights of individuals, and people 'should have the right to be educated to enable them to flourish mentally, emotionally and economically alongside artificial intelligence'.

WHAT DO EXPERTS SAY ON GIVING ROBOTS STATUS AS PERSONS UNDER THE LAW?

The question of whether robots are people has European lawmakers and other experts at loggerheads. 

The issue first arose in January 2017, thanks to a paragraph of text buried deep in a European Parliament report, that advised creating a 'legal status for robots'.

A group of 156 AI specialists from 14 nations has written an open letter to the European Commission in Brussels denouncing the move. 

Writing in the statement, they said: ‘We, artificial intelligence and robotics experts, industry leaders, law, medical and ethics experts, confirm that establishing EU-wide rules for robotics and is pertinent to guarantee a high level of safety and security to the European Union citizens while fostering innovation.

‘As human-robot interactions become common place, the European Union needs to offer the appropriate framework to reinforce Democracy and European Union values.

‘In fact, the artificial intelligence and robotics framework must be explored not only through economic and legal aspects, but also through its societal, psychological and ethical impacts.

‘In this context, we are concerned by the European Parliament resolution on civil law rules of robotics, and its recommendation to the European Commission.’ 

They say that the creation of a legal status of an 'electronic person' for self-learning robots is a bad idea, for a whole host of reasons. 

This includes the fact that companies manufacturing the machines may be absolved of any legal liability for damage inflicted by their creations.

They added: 'Legal status for a robot can’t derive from the Natural Person model, since the robot would then hold human rights, such as the right to dignity, the right to remuneration or the right to citizenship. 

'The legal status for a robot can’t derive from the Legal Entity model,' as afforded to businesses, 'since it implies the existence of human persons behind the legal person to represent and direct it. This is not the case for a robot.' 

'Consequently, we affirm that the European Union must prompt the development of the AI and bobotics industry insofar as to limit health and safety risks to human beings. 

'The protection of robots’ users and third parties must be at the heart of all EU legal provisions.' 

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