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How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence – How AI might affect urban life in 2030

For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators. But for the next decade or two, our biggest concern is more likely to be that robots will take away our jobs or bump into us on the highway.

Now five of the world’s largest tech companies are trying to create a standard of ethics around the creation of artificial intelligence. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of A.I. to humans, researchers at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft have been meeting to discuss more tangible issues, such as the impact of A.I. on jobs, transportation and even warfare.

By JOHN MARKOFF

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/technology/artificial-intelligence-ethics.html?hpw&rref=technology&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

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Stanford-hosted study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030

In the first of what will be a century-long series of periodic studies on artificial intelligence, top scientists say, “It is not too soon for social debate on how the fruits of an AI-dominated economy should be shared.”

Full Story: http://news.stanford.edu/2016/09/01/ai-might-affect-urban-life-2030/

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