Posts in 2018
No One Should Trust AI

Joanna J. Bryson, an invited, reviewed, and edited blogpost by the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, for their Artificial Intelligence and Global Governance blog series, 13 November 2018.

No one should trust AI because we ought to build it for accountability. Then we would have certain knowledge of who’s at fault, and trust isn’t needed, see the scientific trust paper just below with Paul Rauwolf as first author. Published November 2018.

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2018ScienceSitesEthics and Policy
Expectations of Fairness and Trust Co-Evolve in Environments of Partial Information

Paul Rauwolf & and Joanna J. Bryson, Dynamic Games and Applications, 8(4):891-917, 2018.

Highly relevant to information technology policy: The more you know, the less you need to trust, though if you know nothing or don’t have a choice of who you work with, people have no reason to be trustworthy. Trust comes with PARTIAL information, AND at least some freedom. Open access because Bath+Springer

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2018ScienceSitesEvolving Social Behaviors, Origins and Nature of Cognition, Cultural Variation in Cooperation
Patiency Is Not a Virtue: The Design of Intelligent Systems and Systems of Ethics

Joanna J. Bryson, Ethics and Information Technology, 20(1):15-26, 2018.

Both AI and Ethics are artefacts, so there is no necessary position for AI artefacts in society, rather we need to decide what we should build and how we should treat what we build. So why build something to compete for the rights we already struggle to offer 8 billion people? Gold open access paid for by Bath out of our library budget. There are also older versions of this paper which was a discussion paper for a long time, but this is the archival version.

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2018ScienceSitesEthics and Policy, AI Ethics
The Extended Ramp Model: A Biomimetic Model of Behaviour Arbitration for Lightweight Cognitive Architectures

Swen E. Gaudl and Joanna J. Bryson, Cognitive Systems Research, 50:1-9 (this journal seems to count issues as volumes), 2018.

Like the title says, an attempt to simplify and improve on the systems for representing emotions and drives I wrote with Emmanuel Tanguy and Phil Rolphshagen (the Dynamic Emotion Representation (DER) and Flexible Latching respectively, see below).

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2018ScienceSitesSystems Engineering, Emotions and Affect
Communication (pdf)

Rob Wortham and Joanna J. Bryson, open access version, in Living Machines: A Handbook of Research in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Prescott and Verschure, eds, Oxford University Press, 2018.

A summary of everything biology and biological anthropology have to say on the subject, for the benefit of roboticists in particular. Open access is as of late November 2014, a lightly updated version is now available in the Handbook.

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2018ScienceSitesSystems Engineering, Origins and Nature of Cognition
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation

Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jack Clark, Helen Toner, Peter Eckersley, Ben Garfinkel, Allan Dafoe, Paul Scharre, Thomas Zeitzoff, Bobby Filar, Hyrum Anderson, Heather Roff, Gregory C. Allen, Jacob Steinhardt, Carrick Flynn, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Simon Beard, Haydn Belfield, Sebastian Farquhar, Clare Lyle, Rebecca Crootof, Owain Evans, Michael Page, Joanna Bryson, Roman Yampolskiy, Dario Amodei, a technical report apparently published by all seven of the Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, Center for a New American Security, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and OpenAI, 2018.

Apparently exactly one other author did even less than I did on this report; aside from turning up to the meeting I think my main contribution was insisting “use of” was in the title. Final (not peer reviewed except by the authors), February 2018.

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2018ScienceSitesEthics and Policy