Day TWO BTO2017 | TEN Mercoledì 29 novembre SERENDIPITY Hall Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? http://www.buytourismonline.com Keynote Speaker Mariarosaria Taddeo Digital Ethics Lab – Oxford Internet Institute Talkbacker Giovanni Boccia Artieri Università Carlo Bo Urbino Moderator Rodolfo Baggio BTO2017 | TEN

1. Mariarosaria Taddeo
Research Fellow
Deputy Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Faculty Fellow, Alan Turing Institute
@RosariaTaddeo
Artificial Angents Do Not Sleep

2. Artificial agents do not sleep
A bit of logic
Ethical challenges of AI
Outline

3. “‘Can a machine think?’ … to meaningless to deserve a
discussion” (Turing, 1950)

4. Artificial Agents are Turing Machines: they process data in
terms of input, output, and logical operators

5. The key word in ‘science fiction’ is

6. The key word in ‘science fiction’ is fiction

7. (Floridi, 2016 The aubergine challenge)
1. If ultraintelligent machines
happen
2. Then humanity will be at
risk
3. So we have the
responsibility to avoid
either 1 or 2

8. If ultraintelligent
machines happen
Then humanity will be
at risk
Avoid 1 or 2
(Floridi, 2016 The aubergine challenge)

9. If ultraintelligent
machines happen
Avoid 1 or 2
Ex falso quodlibet: when P is false Q is always true
Logical possilitity: logically possible ≠ plausible
(Floridi, 2016 The aubergine challenge)
Then humanity will be
at risk

10. Singularity is an irresponsible distraction

11. Digital technologies
(re)design the ways we
• do things
• perceive/interact
• understand
• live

12. Profiling not discrimination

14. Stability not escalation

15. Technologically
feasible
Socially
acceptable
Human
preferable

16. Good AI combines
• Technical feasibility
• Environmental
sustainability
• Social acceptability,
and
• Human preferability

17. Grazie
Mariarosaria Taddeo
@RosariaTaddeo
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