Blake Hereth, Gérard de Boisboissel, Martin Cm Bricknell, Maria Brincker, William Casebeer, Jovana Davidovic, Jeremy Davis, Jacob Earl, Nir Eisikovits, Daniel Feldman, Lucas França Garcia, Frédéric Gilbert, Vincent Guérin, Adam Henschke, James Hughes, Dominique Lambert, Sahar Latheef, Jonathan D Moreno, Ian Shane Peebles, Michelle T Pham, Shira Pindyck, Ilya Rudyak, Nariyoshi Shinomiya, Neil D Shortland, Robert Sparrow, Joseph Stramondo, Laure Tabouy, Paul Tubig, David Whetham, Nicholas G Evans
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Abstract
Horizon scanning is intended to identify opportunities and threats associated with technology, regulatory, and social change. Here, we report the results of a new horizon scan based on inputs of an international group of 33 participants, focusing on future issues arising from the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) for augmenting human performance. The final list of 12 issues includes topics spanning from the political (educating and training individuals to accept and work with AI), to the regulatory (issues of consent to human-AI teaming and hybridization), to security (the hackability of neural devices that connect to AI), to philosophical (the nature and phenomenology of brain-to-brain interfaces). The early identification of such issues is relevant to researchers, policymakers, military practitioners, and the wider public.
期刊介绍:
Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues associated with science and engineering, covering professional education, research and practice as well as the effects of technological innovations and research findings on society.
While the focus of this journal is on science and engineering, contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, are welcomed. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, ethics of new and emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, animals and human subjects ethics, ethics education in science and engineering, ethics in design, biomedical ethics, values in technology and innovation.
We welcome contributions that deal with these issues from an international perspective, particularly from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.