Power & Security, Technology NDIA Policy Points: AI Ethical Principles Offer Strength, Opportunity

December 8, 2020
By Elliot Seckler | National Defense Magazine

Our Director Michael Horowitz is quoted in this piece from National Defense Magazine, looking at potential impacts of the U.S. military's new AI ethical principles.

“Artificial intelligence will be the future, and the department ... must readily and effectively adopt its best practices if the [U.S.] wants to maintain its superpower status,” says Brian Schimpf, CEO and cofounder of Anduril Industries — a defense technology company.

But how the Defense Department merges ethics and artificial intelligence with American values will have a profound impact on future military operations, industry and the acquisitions process...

According to Dr. Michael Horowitz, the director of Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania, “incorporating AI principles into the defense acquisitions process should not be viewed as a constraint either for industry or U.S. military readiness.”

In fact, “AI ethics principles help reaffirm our values in a way that could strengthen our ability to develop and field capabilities with machine learning built in.” For Horowitz, “keeping human judgment at the core of decisions regarding the use of force is a strength. It allows the U.S. to maximize what people and machines each do best.”

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