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...academics at the University of Bergen in Norway discussed the idea of a “moral A.I.” for smart home assistants, like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod, during a conference. Moral A.I. would reportedly make home assistants have to “decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law,” or whether to stay silent.
This would let them to weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance,” the Daily Mail explained, adding that Dr. Marija Slavkovik, who led the research, “suggested that digital assistants should possess an ethical awareness that simultaneously represents both the owner and the authorities — or, in the case of a minor, their parents.” “Devices would then have an internal ‘discussion’ about suspect behaviour, weighing up conflicting demands between the law and personal freedoms, before arriving at the ‘best’ course of action,” the Mail noted.
There is [already] an ethical conflict between people in one family, let alone between people and manufacturer, or shareholders of the manufacturer and programmers… If we want to avoid Orwellian outcomes it’s important that all stakeholders are identified and have a say, including when machines shouldn’t be able to listen in. Right now only the manufacturer decides.
originally posted by: Archivalist
There is nothing wrong with this situation.
No one is required to own one of these. If you buy one and have it in your home, you are signing up for surveillance, it is not being forced on you.
originally posted by: Archivalist
There is nothing wrong with this situation.
No one is required to own one of these. If you buy one and have it in your home, you are signing up for surveillance, it is not being forced on you.
originally posted by: Hecate666
originally posted by: Archivalist
There is nothing wrong with this situation.
No one is required to own one of these. If you buy one and have it in your home, you are signing up for surveillance, it is not being forced on you.
Yet.
One day refusing to have one will mean that you are up to no good .