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Expert Says Graduates in AI Should Take Oath: 'I Must Not Play at God nor Let My Technology Do So'
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Oren Etzioni has suggested artificial intelligence developers take an oath to develop AI "from a higher moral ground."
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Exactly how artificial intelligence will affect our lives is under intense debate by some very influential thought leaders, including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Musk has been a consistent voice warning about the danger of AI, while Zuckerberg has been more optimistic, calling such doomsday scenarios "pretty irresponsible."
One certainty about AI, however, is that it will have a profound impact on the future.
As such, the president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, Brad Smith, and the executive vice president of Microsoft's AI and Research group, Harry Shum, propose in their book, "The Future Computed," that those working in AI could pledge an oath similar in nature to the ones doctors take.
One expert in AI has taken the next step forward, drafting an amended version of the popular Hippocratic Oath for those who graduate in the field of AI. The adjusted oath pledges a commitment to use knowledge of AI to create technology for good.
Oren Etzioni is CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an organization created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which does AI research and engineering "all for the common good," according to its website. Etzioni has also been a professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science department since 1991.
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