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2Assuring AI safety: fallible knowledge and the Gricean maximsAI and Ethics 1-14. 2024.In this paper we argue that safety claims, when justified by a safety case, are descriptive fallible knowledge claims. Even if the aim of a safety case was to justify infallible knowledge about the safety of a system, such infallible safety knowledge is impossible to attain in the case of AI-enabled systems. By their nature AI-enabled systems preclude the possibility of obtaining infallible knowledge concerning their safety or lack thereof. We suggest that one can communicate knowledge of an AI-…Read more
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Ethics in conversation: Building an ethics assurance case for autonomous AI-enabled voice agents in healthcareTas '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 1 1-13. 2023.The deployment and use of AI systems should be both safe and broadly ethically acceptable. The principles-based ethics assurance argument pattern is one proposal in the AI ethics landscape that seeks to support and achieve that aim. The purpose of this argument pattern or framework is to structure reasoning about, and to communicate and foster confidence in, the ethical acceptability of uses of specific real-world AI systems in complex socio-technical contexts. This paper presents the interim fi…Read more
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2A principles‐based ethics assurance argument pattern for AI and autonomous systemsAI and Ethics 4 593-616. 2023.An assurance case is a structured argument, typically produced by safety engineers, to communicate confidence that a critical or complex system, such as an aircraft, will be acceptably safe within its intended context. Assurance cases often inform third party approval of a system. One emerging proposition within the trustworthy AI and autonomous systems (AI/AS) research community is to use assurance cases to instil justified confidence that specific AI/AS will be ethically acceptable when operat…Read more
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298Transcendence: Measuring IntelligenceJournal of Science Fiction and Philosophy 6. 2023.Among the many common criticisms of the Turing test, a valid criticism concerns its scope. Intelligence is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon that will require testing using as many different formats as possible. The Turing test continues to be valuable as a source of evidence to support the inductive inference that a machine possesses a certain kind of intelligence and when interpreted as providing a behavioural test for a certain kind of intelligence. This paper raises the novel critic…Read more
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20Raising Ethical Machines: Bottom-Up Methods to Implementing Machine EthicsIn Steven John Thompson (ed.), Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Igi Global. pp. 47-68. 2020.The ethical decision-making and behaviour of artificially intelligent systems is increasingly important given the prevalence of these systems and the impact they can have on human well-being. Many current approaches to implementing machine ethics utilize top-down approaches, that is, ensuring the ethical decision-making and behaviour of an agent via its adherence to explicitly defined ethical rules or principles. Despite the attractiveness of this approach, this chapter explores how all top-down…Read more
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28Emergence: A philosophical account Paul Humphreys new York: Oxford university press, 2016; 288 pp.; $74.00 (review)Dialogue 57 (3): 645-646. 2018.
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24The multiple realization book Thomas W. Polger and Lawrence A. Shapiro new York: Oxford university press, 2016; 258 pp.; $35.00 (review)Dialogue 57 (4): 908-909. 2018.
Marten H. L. Kaas
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Charité Universitätsmedizin BerlinPostdoctoral Researcher
Heslington, York, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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