Concerns are rising about juicing or doping of AI-based Machine Learning systems. getty Juicing and doping. Doping and juicing. We all know about the ongoing and surreptitious use of performance-enhan...
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AI Ethics And The Perplexing Societal And Legal Role Of AI Activism, Including In The Case Of Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
AI activism is rising amid efforts to establish AI Ethics and Ethical AI. getty AI activism. Yes, there is such a thing. My formal definition is this: AI activism consists of efforts to try and shape ...
SF Fire Dept. Says Cruise Robotaxi Did Not Yield Properly And Delayed Fire Truck
File photo of a San Francisco Fire Truck going through an intersection Getty Images According to reports, a San Francisco Fire truck on way to a fire was delayed by the combination of a garbage truck ...
AI Ethics Unnervingly Asking Whether AI Biases Are Insidiously Hiding Societal Power Dynamics, Including For AI Self-Driving Cars
AI biases might be a harbinger of societal power dynamics, raising thorny AI Ethics issues. getty Hiding in plain sight. Have you ever heard that line before? Probably so. It can have various meanings...
Gatik And Walmart Notch A Big Win In Kansas With New Law Enabling Driverless Vehicle Deployment
Gatik’s policy partnership with Walmart is a formidable one. Gatik Gatik announced today that it will be expanding operations to Kansas following the signing of Senate Bill 313 into law by Governor La...
AI Ethics And The Law Are Dabbling With AI Disgorgement Or All-Out Destruction Of AI As A Remedy For AI Wrongdoing, Possibly Even For Misbehaving Self-Driving Cars
Will we seek to use AI disgorgement or the destroying of AI when some AI wrongdoing is alleged, and … [+] if so, can we pull it off? getty You might say that society seems nearly obsessed with i...
AI Ethics Is Especially Vexed By That AI Confinement Problem, Including The Knotty Particulars For Confining Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Will we be able to adequately confine AI when we need to do so? getty The famous illusionist and acclaimed escape artist Harry Houdini once boldly declared this rather unabashed assertion: “No prison ...
AI Ethics Wrestling With The Inevitably Of AI Accidents, Which Looms Over Autonomous Self-Driving Cars Too
Humankind has to anticipate AI accidents and cope accordingly. getty Do you perchance know someone that seems to be particularly accident-prone? Seems like we all do. Perhaps the person is that type t...
Robotaxi Services Must Go Beyond To Be Car Replacements, And Maybe Even Link Up
Waymo’s planned robotaxi vehicle, body made by Geely/Zeekr Waymo Most self-driving players are aiming to build a robotaxi (and even Tesla recently announced even more effort on that plan, though...
Tesla Teases A Custom Robotaxi, Are They Crazy?
At the Gigafactory opening and in yesterday’s earnings call, Elon Musk teased about Tesla TSLA working on a vehicle to be dedicated to robotaxi service. This isn’t the first time Tesla has talked abou...
AI Startups Finally Getting Onboard With AI Ethics And Loving It, Including Those Newbie Autonomous Self-Driving Car Tech Firms Too
AI startups are increasingly embracing AI ethics, though this is trickier than it might seem at … [+] first glance. getty Fail fast, fail often. Whatever you are thinking, think bigger. Fake it ...
AI Ethics And The Acclaimed AI Uncanny Valley, Which Also Rattles AI-Based Self-Driving Cars
Ethical AI dilemma of how far AI robots should be devised to appear or act like humans, per the … [+] uncanny valley precepts. getty Sometimes there are slightly oddish things that catch your at...
In SF, We Find Out What Happens When Cops Pull Over A Cruise Self-Driving Car
A Cruise self-driving car was pulled over in San Francisco by police for driving at night without … [+] its lights on. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Last week in San Francisco, some offi...
Insidious AI-Based Proxy Discrimination Against Humans Is Dauntingly Vexing For AI Ethics, Which Can Occur Even In The Case Of Autonomous AI Self-Driving Cars
AI is veering into proxy discrimination which bodes for insidious and challenging times. getty Let’s discuss proxy discrimination amid the actions of modern-day Artificial Intelligence (AI). To get in...
AI Ethics Stepping Up To Guide How AI For Children Needs To Be Suitably Devised, Which Can Be Overlooked For Example In The Rapid Drive Toward Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Let’s make sure that we are careful about how AI is going to impact our children. getty It is often said that our children are our future. Another oft-repeated refrain is that Artificial Intelli...
Here’s Why AI Ethics Is Touting That Human-Centered AI Is Crucial To Our AI Symbiotic Existence, Such As The Advent Of Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
The trend toward Human-Centered AI (HCAI) is vital and here’s why. getty You might have heard or seen that the world is supposed to be focusing on Human-Centered AI (HCAI). What is it? Why do we...
China’s driverless delivery startup Whale Dynamic targets US market with $2.5M funding
A nascent Nuro challenger from China has its sight set on the delivery market in the US and has just raised some seed funding to advance its ambitions. Whale Dynamic, a Shenzhen-based autonomous deliv...
Ethical AI Ambitiously Hoping To Have AI Learn Ethical Behavior By Itself, Such As The Case With AI In Autonomous Self-Driving Cars
Can AI learn ethical precepts on its own? getty Aristotle famously stated that educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. You could interpret that insightful remark to sugg...
U.S. clears way for driverless vehicles without steering wheels
DETROIT – Federal vehicle safety regulators have cleared the way for the production and deployment of driverless vehicles that do not include manual controls such as a steering wheel or pedals. The U....
Tesla FSD 10.9 Review Update; Three Averted Crashes
Previously, I published a review of Tesla FSD 10.8 where I gave it an “F” from my perspective as a robocar industry consultant. The system, while called a “beta” isn’t yet at that level. Here’s a new ...
Pushing The Boundaries Of AI Ethics Into The Topsy-Turvy World Of Radical Ethical AI, Potentially Exemplified Via The Use Case Of Vaunted AI-Based Self-Driving Cars
Does AI Ethics need to shift into Radical Ethical AI, and if so, how might that impact AI-based … [+] self-driving cars? getty Has the prevailing tenor and attention of today’s widely emerging s...
The Ethical AI Question Of Whether Self-Driving Cars Ought To Be A Good Samaritan And Forewarn When Human-Driven Cars Are Going To Crash Into Each Other
When driving, mind your own business or help other drivers, that’s the question to be pondered. getty Mind your own business. That’s a common refrain about not sticking your nose into the activi...
GM-Backed Cruise Launches Driverless Ride Service In San Francisco
Cruise opened its autonomous ride service to the public in San Francisco on Feb. 1. Cruise Cruise, the autonomous driving company backed by General Motors, is kicking off its long-awaited robotaxi ser...
Latest Jolting AI Ethics Concern Is That AI Can Inextricably Embody Political Biases, Including Even In The Innocuous Case Of AI-Based Self-Driving Cars
AI Ethics is adding a new topic, namely the infusion of politics into our AI, which an example via … [+] the advent of self-driving cars helps illustrate. getty Let’s talk politics. Well, I real...
Flagging Down A Roaming AI Self-Driving Car Robo-Taxi Might Not Be In The Cards
Hailing a ride in an era of Ai-based self-driving cars. getty Not so long ago, it seemed that the hailing of a cab required long arms and a capacity to wave frantically to catch the eye of the taxi dr...
Be Resolute To Reduce That Nighttime Artificial Light Pollution, Which AI Self-Driving Cars Can Help Solve (But Doing So Will Be Tricky)
Artificial light pollution via car headlights and how self-driving cars will fare. getty Let there be darkness. That is the potential catchphrase for those that are concerned about nighttime light pol...