Top-level summary: This paper by Nathalie A. Smuha explores how human rights can form a solid foundation for the development of AI governance frameworks but it cautions against an over-reliance on them for making … [Read more...] about Research summary: Beyond a Human Rights Based Approach To AI Governance: Promise, Pitfalls and Plea
Research summary: Maximizing Privacy and Effectiveness in COVID-19 Apps
Top-level summary: This highly insightful work from the OpenMined team led by Andrew Trask provides a great amount of technical detail when trying to build an AI-enabled application to combat COVID-19. Along with … [Read more...] about Research summary: Maximizing Privacy and Effectiveness in COVID-19 Apps
Consequentialism and Machine Ethics – Towards a Foundational Machine Ethic to Ensure the Ethical Conduct of Artificial Moral Agents
By Josiah Della Foresta (Philosophy, McGill University) This paper argues that Consequentialism represents a kind of ethical theory that is the most plausible to serve as a basis for a machine ethic. It begins by … [Read more...] about Consequentialism and Machine Ethics – Towards a Foundational Machine Ethic to Ensure the Ethical Conduct of Artificial Moral Agents
Research summary: Challenges in Supporting Exploratory Search through Voice Assistants
Top-level summary: A high-level position paper from Google (by Xiao Ma and Ariel Lu), this work brings forth in a succinct manner some of the challenges faced in designing useful and efficacious voice-activated AI … [Read more...] about Research summary: Challenges in Supporting Exploratory Search through Voice Assistants
Research summary: Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic
Top-level summary: With a rising number of cases worldwide of COVID-19 and extensive measures being taken across the world to minimize the spread and mitigate economic harm and continuity to our way of life. Yet, some … [Read more...] about Research summary: Apps Gone Rogue: Maintaining Personal Privacy in an Epidemic