KEYNOTE: AI Ethics – Challenges and Opportunities

Jim Torresen, University of Oslo, Oslo, NORWAY. ABSTRACT: "Artificial intelligence (AI) has entered an increasing number of different domains. A growing number of people – in the general public as well as in research – have started to consider a number of potential ethical challenges and legal issues related to the development and use of AI technologies. This keynote will give an overview of the most commonly expressed ethical challenges and ways being undertaken to reduce their negative impact. Among the most important challenges are those related to privacy, fairness, transparency, safety and security. Countermeasures can be taken first at design time, second, when a user should decide where and when to apply a system and third, when a system is in use in its environment. In the latter case, there will be a need for the system by itself to perform some ethical reasoning if operating in an autonomous mode. This keynote will introduce some examples from our own and others´ work and how the challenges can be addressed both from a technical and human side with special attention to problems relevant when working with AI research and development. AI ethical issues should not be seen only as challenges but also as new research opportunities contributing to more sustainable, socially beneficial services and systems. "