From the Daily Mail, Feb. 22:
- Scientists at University of Bergen touted the idea at ACM conference in Hawaii
- Could see artificial listening devices given moral autonomy over human beings
- Most bots don’t have smell sensors, but they do have microphones and cameras
- Previously, police have seized information obtained from such smart devices
Smart assistants could soon come with a 'moral AI' to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law.That's the suggestion of academics at who say that household gadgets like the Amazon Echo and Google Home should be enhanced with ethical smart software.This would let them to weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance.Academics at the University of Bergen, Norway, touted the idea at the ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society in Hawaii.Marija Slavkovik, associate professor the department of information science and media studies, led the research.Leon van der Torre and Beishui Liao, professors at the University of Luxembourg and Zhejiang University respectively, also took part.Dr Slavkovik suggested that digital assistants should possess an ethical awareness that simultaneously represents both the owner and the authorities - or, in the case of a minor, their parents.Devices would then have an internal 'discussion' about suspect behaviour, weighing up conflicting demands between the law and personal freedoms, before arriving at the 'best' course of action.That said, there would need to be room for compromise because the world itself is not black and white.'What we propose is very simple and of course there is so much more to do,' Dr Slavkokik told MailOnline....MORE
Okay, Bergen, getting a little tired of the moralizing, capiche?
