Autonomous systems create new ethical challenges because the continually changing environment and increasing system complexity mean the initial intentions of a designed system can drift. This report - "Ethics and autonomous weapon systems: An ethical basis for human control?" Subsets of IAS 1. Report: The journey to an autonomous transport system (2.85 MB), Autonomous Systems ask new questions of the public, of engineers and of regulators, about what we expect of them and the condition under which we can and should trust them. Agenda; ... conducting research, providing translations: intelligent machine systems are transforming our lives for the better. Expertise from industry, academia, regulators and government was convened through a series of panel discussions which investigated three main areas: The panel discussions and wider audience Q&A themes of trade-offs, trust, ethical risk and challenges to assuring safety. In a detailed discussion of the ethical and moral concerns that pertain to autonomous driving systems, The New Yorker reports there were strong … Questions posed to the maritime community (632.09 KB). Here are some of the main ethical issues keeping the AI experts up at night. The next seminar in our 2021 series is On the Ethics of Autonomous Systems (‘AI’) The 21st century has accelerated the intensity and ubiquity of how information about us shapes our lives: how it can be collected and processed, and used in ways that have material and moral impacts on individuals and communities. It highlighted that international context matters and technology shouldn’t be deployed without consultation with those who will be affected. Rigid regulation is considered to stifle innovation and economic development. The system against the users, or the user against the system?”, this expert asked, to illustrate that the system design impacts the degree of cooperation and trust. Also in 2016 the US White House initiated a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group, and the European Parliament … The ethical landscape surrounding the introduction of autonomous vehicles is complex, and there are real concerns over whether the operational safety of these systems can be adequately demonstrated. And will consider what is unique about developing autonomous systems in that sector and the specific challenges that need to be overcome for safe and ethical deployment. In this paper we will consider how various approaches to ethics play out when applied to autonomous systems. To engage in public dialogue and gauge opinion on self-driving vehicles we held an event at the Science Museum Late, Driverless: who is in control? As a result of rapid and impressive developments in sensor technology, AI and machine learning, robotics and mechanical engineering, mechatronics, and systems with various degrees of autonomy will be available on a large scale in the coming years. Groups were asked to consider one of a number of global challenges for example the ageing population in Japan or urbanisation in Jakarta. (2019) Machine ethics: The design and governance of ethical AI and autonomous systems. are increasingly being discussed in relation to autonomous systems the operation of which poses a risk of harm to human life. One example would be bounded-derivative networks applied in model-predictive control of process plants, conceived when standard neural networks were proven to be inadequate. It enabled participants to reflect and consider the options and encouraged conversation and questioning between friends. Integrated robotics, AI and unmanned autonomous architectures in the virtual and physical worlds are outpacing governments’, policymakers’ and world leaders’ abilities to keep up with the policies, ethics, laws, and governance for advanced technologies and autonomous systems. Autonomous systems (AS) have been proposed for use in multiple domains, in-cluding nuclear, medical, defence, rail, maritime and automotive. Experts agreed that it will be more challenging to evaluate risk levels and failure modes for autonomous systems than with conventional systems, because situations will arise that were not part of the data used to train the algorithms making the decisions. ISSN 0018-9219. Therefore, regulation must anticipate technological developments, dialog with innovators and industrial players, and with society to adapt regulation over time and find a middle ground without compromising economics, environment, or safety. Where possible we are taking opportunities to engage with different audiences including the public and international stakeholders to understand these points of view. These workshops were framed with a series of questions across a series of challenges: technical, ethics, oversight, regulation, professional responsibility and public acceptance. The technological aspect aside, from an ethics perspective, the “computerisation” and “robotisation” of warfare is located on a slippery slope, the endpoint of which can neither be predicted nor fully controlled.