Swarm Creativity Blog

Making AI ethical might be impossible, but AI can make us more ethical! I don’t think it will ever be possible to guarantee that AI will behave fully ethical. Marvin Minsky once said: “Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.” What he means is that because we made them, the robots will follow our ethical understanding and thus be ethically well-behaved - unfortunately there will always be unethical hackers, leading to unethical robots. Isaac Asimov defined the three law of robotics which say that (1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. (2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. (3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.  Looking at the military uses of AI, where both Russia and the US announced that they are working on self-guided missiles that use A...

Our team is currently working on measuring happiness using the body sensors of a smartwatch. In particular we have developed "happimeter" software to measure individual happiness, and show the influence of individuals on team happiness. Our premise is that measuring and giving feedback about happiness will increase individual and team happiness. When I describe our work to potential sponsors and other interested people, at some point in the discussion invariably the question comes up: WHY measuring happiness? When I then answer that our goal is to better understand what the determinants of happiness are to increase individual and team happiness, I get one of two reactions: Particularly in the US, most of the time, people will say "ah, I understand,  if you have happier people working with you, their productivity will go up, and the company will make more money." In other words, the capitalist's reaction is: "make people happier, so my company makes m...