Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10609/147846
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/ |
Appears in Collections: | Trabajos finales de carrera, trabajos de investigación, etc. |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
pablogonFMDP0322report.pdf | Report of FMDP | 417,02 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Share:
This item is licensed under aCreative Commons License