Social impacts of ethical artifical intelligence and autonomous system design

Abstract

With the introduction of autonomous systems becoming more and more prevalent in modern society a major focus of research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autonomous Systems (AS) ethics is becoming important. There are many questions in the public about how these AI/AS programs will make ethical decisions as well as what ethical issues will be dealt with at a developmental level. Darning AI/AS development, these choices are mainly developed by personal choice of the developers which is an objective view of any issue on how to handle difficult situations. In most conversation about AI/AS control, people have an issue with how ethical decisions are made or which decision is made prompting them to want human intervention during these situations. The IEEE Standards Association (SA) has been developing a set of basic guidelines to help alleviate some of the ambiguity of these sensitive issues. This paper is a literature review of AI/AS design guidelines and a case study of different incidence that AI/AS systems could be involved in producing many of the social and ethical quandaries brought on by AI/AS system development.