A Blueprint for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Technologies

147 Pages·2022·6.278 MB·English

by  Frank Wolf

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A Blueprint for the Regulation
of Artificial Intelligence
Technologies
By
Frank Wolf
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A Blueprint for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Technologies
By Frank Wolf
This book first published 2022
Ethics International Press Ltd, UK
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Copyright © 2022 by Frank Wolf
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Print Book ISBN: 978-1-871891-73-7
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The reader is undoubtedly familiar with book acknowledgments
and may have noticed similarities among them. These similarities
refer to the authors’ painful and lonely labor of word-smithery, ne-
glected spouses who soldiered through this ordeal, children who
suffered greatly from the lack of attention and whose development
may have been temporarily impaired. This is duly noted. Addition-
ally, the author recognizes Ethics Press International, its publisher
Sarah Palmer, and editor Amanda Briggs, for sharing the need to
establish ethical standards.

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CONTENTS
Acknowledgement ..................................................................................v
Table of Contents ...................................................................................vii
Foreword: Annotated Table of Contents ...........................................ix
Prologue ...............................................................................................xiv
Chapter 1 Welcome to Industrial Revolutions ................................1
Chapter 2 Which Ethical Framework? Pick one! ............................12
Chapter 3 Role Models for Self-Regulation already exist. ............22
Chapter 4 The Case for Starting with Self-Regulation First ..........26
Chapter 5 What to Regulate, that is the Ethics Question...............38
Chapter 6 Ethics Self-Regulation in Practice ...................................58
Chapter 7 Re-Engineering Our Common Future ...........................74
Chapter 8 Measuring Ethics ...............................................................79
Chapter 9 The Next Level – Quantum Computing ........................91
Chapter 10 Regulatory Challenges .....................................................98
Chapter 11 Regulatory Trends ..........................................................104
Chapter 12 Fourteen Points ...............................................................115
Notes and References by chapter .......................................................122
About the author ..................................................................................129

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FOREWORD:
ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Welcome to Industrial Revolutions
The first chapter sets the stage for understanding how new technol-
ogies fit into history. Artificial Intelligence invades people’s lives,
motivated perhaps by good intentions but having possibly bad
outcomes. What are our defenses and responses? First, we do not
have to invent an entirely new ethic regime for the 4th industrial
revolution. We should start by looking back. Aristotle told us that
rule-based reasoning leads to good decisions, which clearly defines
machine learning. The second is to recall how Artificial Intelligence
became a discipline; it was discovered and defined by private ini-
tiatives from academia and industry. It happened through personal
leadership from John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon,
and others. Private enterprises are needed again. Selected ideas from
DaVinci, Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, and Mills can guide Artificial
Intelligence ethics today. A Dartmouth-type conference would be a
good start, a digital Breton Woods even better on a larger scale.
2 Which Ethical Framework? Pick one!
There are many regulators with a legitimate mandate to regulate.
Many others love to control and see their agenda expressed in the
form of guidelines. The candidates are GDPR General Data Protec-
tion Regulation; OECD Organization of Economic Development; EC
European Commission; The White House; CCPA California Con-
sumer Privacy Act; G-20 the 19+1, EU countries; UN the United Na-
tions; the COE Council of Europe; the WTO World Trade Organiza-
tion; ITU International Telecommunication Union, and many more.
The GDPR and the State of California have unsynchronized privacy
enforcement rules, which are challenging to comply with for inter-
national firms.