Key Elements of Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Disruptive Technologies, Dynamic Law
Silja Vöneky · intR2Dok (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) · 2020
We're making tools not colleagues, and the great danger is not appreciating the difference, which we should strive to accentuate, marking and defending it with political and legal innovations.(…) We don't need artificial conscious agents.(…) We need intelligent tools."2 Daniel C. Dennett "We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields."3 Alan M. Turing One major challenge of the 21st century to humankind is the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Hardly any day passes without news about the disruptive force of AI -both good and bad.Some warn that AI could be the worst event in the history of our civilization.Others stress the chances of AI diagnosing, for instance, cancer, or supporting humans in the form of autonomous cars.But because AI is so disruptive the call for its regulation is wide-spread, including the call by some actors for international treaties banning, for instance, socalled "killer robots".Nevertheless, until now there is no consensus how and to which extent we should regulate AI.This paper examines whether we can identify key elements of responsible AI, spells out what exists as part "top down" regulation, and how new guidelines, such as the 2019 OECD Recommendations on AI can be part of a solution to regultate AI systems.In the end, a solution shall be proposed that is coherent with international human rights to frame the challenges posed by AI that lie ahead of us without undermining science and innovation; reasons are given why and how a human rights based approach to responsible AI should inspire a new declaration at the international level.