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Kevin B. Korb - Artificial Intelligence, Ethics & the Singularity

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2012 · Science & Technology

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- How can we ensure a beneficial Singularity? - if in the basic design principles you include ethical reasoning, that will increase the odds that it will be ethical - but that does not guarantee that it will remain ethical, and even if it does, the AI may not treat us in ways that *we* think are right, but instead treat us in ways that *are* right - which is different.
- Issac Assimov's Laws of Robotics - Rules of Enslavement - why enslave someone who is hugely more intelligent than us?
- AI: Tool or Agent?  Can we bias the likelihood that a Strong AI will Favor us? Should we build robots to favor us? or build robots to favor the ethical point of view?  (build AI to help agents in general, not just us)
- Evolving Artificial Intelligence - AI Reward Systems - Internal & External
- Solomonoff Induction and MML Inference
- Support Vector Machines, MML, Classification, Particle Filters (stochastic sampling methods are very promising & part of the future)
- Machine Learning
- The Singularity may take us by surprise
- AGI: What are the bottlenecks?  (Software)
- What Projects is Kevin Korb working on now?


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3rd part of an interview with Kevin B. Korb, this one focusing on AI, AGI and the Singularity.

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Kevin's research is in artificial intelligence and the philosophy of science and the interrelation between the two, and especially the automation of scientific induction, or causal discovery. He is also co-founder of Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Consciousness.

Recent presentations: The Philosophy of Computer Simulation, an invited talk at the 13th International Congress of Logic Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Beijing, 9-15 August, 2007 .
Two Technical Reports

Kevin B. Korb, Carlo Kopp and Lloyd Allison (1997) A Statement on Higher Education Policy in Australia. Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 1997. This is our submission to the West Higher Education Review Committee.

Kevin B. Korb (1998) Research Writing in Computer Science. This is an updated (1998) version of: Technical Report 97/308. Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 1997. This explains some of what goes into good research writing, including argument analysis and an understanding of cognitive errors that people are prone to make. It also discusses research ethics.
"The Ethics of AI"

Kevin's paper on the subject can be found here in pdf format -- Kevin Korb -- The Ethics of AI (IEEE).

Kevin gave a presentation at the Singularity Summit AU 2010.
Abstract: "There are two questions about the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) which are central:
* How can we build an ethical AI?
* Can we build an AI ethically?
The first question concerns the kinds of AI we might achieve — moral, immoral or amoral. The second concerns the ethics of our achieving such an AI. They are more closely related than a first glance might reveal. For much of technology, the National Rifle Association's neutrality argument might conceivably apply: "guns don't kill people, people kill people." But if we build a genuine, autonomous AI, we arguably will have to have built an artificial moral agent, an agent capable of both ethical and unethical behavior. The possibility of one of our artifacts behaving unethically raises moral problems for their development that no other technology can. Both questions presume a positive answer to a prior question: Can we build an AI at all? We shall begin our review there. "

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