How AI Can Be a Force for Good

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution has created the need for ethical rules guiding the technology’s development and usage.

Due to its autonomy and capacity to learn, AI is more than just another new technology. AI is increasingly inserting itself into people’s lives and has started to influence their behavior. The technology poses new ethical challenges that society must confront before AI has advanced to a point where individual rights and social welfare are compromised. Leaders from civil society, politics, the private sector and academia must develop guidelines that will allow AI to become an aid to human endeavors without undermining human dignity.

A first set of rules governing AI must address the delegation of tasks and the ascription of responsibility.

The strength of AI is that it can perform tasks and draw conclusions autonomously. For example, AI outperforms humans at detecting breast ...