What ethical and legal issues is the development of artificial intelligence giving rise to?
On Tuesday 17 October 2017 the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence will question academics, industry and legal experts on the ethical and legal implications of artificial intelligence (AI).
The first panel, at 3.35pm, will be on the ethics of AI. The Committee will hear from:
- Professor Alan Winfield, Professor of Robot Ethics, UWE Bristol
- Dr Ing. Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director, IEEE-Standards Association.
Questions the Committee is likely to ask include
- Has AI given rise to new and distinctive ethical issues?
- Who should be ethically accountable for the decisions made by AI systems?
- Will an AI system itself be ever held to account for its own decisions?
- How can an AI system be developed so to not be discriminatory or unfair in its decision making?
- Does the ethical development and use of AI require regulation?
The second panel, at 4.35pm, will be on the legal implications of AI.
The Committee will hear from:
- Professor Christopher Reed, Professor of Electronic Commerce Law, Queen Mary University of London
- Jeremy Barnett, Barrister, St Pauls Chambers, Leeds and Gough Square Chambers
- Professor Karen Yeung, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.
Questions the Committee is likely to ask include:
- What are the biggest opportunities and risks for the law in the UK over the coming decade in relation to the development and use of AI?
- If new legislation was to be introduced to deal with the issues presented by AI, should the UK Government go it alone, or work with other governments to create international frameworks for legislation?
- As AI systems become increasingly autonomous in practice, will the legal system need to change in order to reflect and accommodate this autonomy?
- Does the creation of some form of electronic personhood need to be considered in the UK?
These evidence sessions will take place at 3.35pm on Tuesday 17 October 2017 in Committee Room 4A of the House of Lords.
On Wednesday 11 October 2017 the Committee published 207 written pieces of evidence it accepted into the inquiry. This evidence came from a cross section of society, including academics, individuals, AI companies, small and big businesses.
Click the link below to read the evidence.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/ai-committee/publications/
