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At this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, global leaders are asking whether to put guardrails in place for AI itself, or look to regulate its effects once the tech is developed.
A century ago, Thomas Midgley Jr. was responsible for two phenomenally destructive innovations. What can we learn from them today?
Because technological development moves so quickly, it often outpaces changes in law and ethical norms that might be deemed necessary later. Sometimes, in the interim, people get hurt. At other times, preventive regulations may be overreactions, unnecessary to prevent harms and ultimately a drag on science and innovation. Eventually, it seems, some balance is achieved, and a nascent scientific field or technology is allowed to progress mostly according to market forces. Our technologies are certainly changing us and our planet. Largely, they have expanded our life spans and improved our well-...
Author: Wendell Wallach Wendell Wallach is known internationally as an expert on the ethical and governance concerns posed by emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and neuroscience. He is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and a senior advisor to The Hastings Center, a fellow at the Center for Law, Science &, Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law (Arizona State University), and a fellow at the Institute for Ethics &, Emerging Technology. At Yale, Wallach has chaired the Center’s workin...
On December 6, 1999, after a successful landing, a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) unexpectedly accelerated its taxiing speed to 178 mph and, at a curve in the runway, veered off the paved surface. Its nose gear collapsed in the adjacent desert, causing $5.3 million in damage. At the time of the accident, the operators piloting the UAV from the safety of their control station had no idea why it had occurred. An Air Force investigation attributed the acceleration to software problems compounded by “a breakdown in supervision.” A spokesperson for Northrop Grumman, the UAV’s manu...