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Title: The Ethics of artificial intelligence and the multilateral push for a treaty
Author: González Peralta, Pablo
Tutor: Castillo Iglesias, Just  
Abstract: The technologies embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have had, in the recent years, an exponential development both in terms of capabilities and reach. AI has already contributed to spectacular advances in many technological and scientific areas. In parallel, AI applications can also be used to manipulate citizens, amplify cyberattacks, abuse biometric data, constrain, or cancel, freedoms and control lethal autonomous weapons. As the world has known better the risks associated to AI both at societal and at military levels, the need to settle ethical principles that pose limits to the development, management and usage of AI has become urgent. This article examines the journey that different international organizations have followed in recommending AI normative frameworks based on ethical principles. The proposed ethical principles are described and discussed, as well as the need to move from recommendations to laws, as illustrated by the EU AI Act. AI-based systems create new threats to the global security. Balances of power, new security dilemmas, autonomous weaponry and increased uncertainty are some of the elements discussed in this article. The possibilities for AI to launch and lead ‘hyper’ and ‘cyber’ wars pose tremendous dangers to humanity. There is a growing consensus that those risks should be contained. International law should prevail, ethical principles respected, and humans need to remain accountable and in control. The international community is ready to work in a treaty to regulate the military applications of AI. This document argues that a treaty is needed, needed now, and explores some of the proposed foundational elements that such treaty should consider.
Keywords: ethics
lethal autonomous weapons
cyberspace
artificial intelligence
multilateralism
international humanitarian law
international security
UNESCO
AI
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: 23-Mar-2022
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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