Framing ethical perspectives
Emerging Technologies are technologies whose development and/or practical applications are still largely unrealized. Carnegie Council’s events, experts, and initiatives focus on the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies and aim to map the field, illuminate topics requiring further research, and build a diverse community of experts, with the goal of ensuring that these systems are developed and deployed in a just, responsible, and inclusive manner.
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SEP 12, 2024 • Article
From Principles to Action: Charting a Path for Military AI Governance
MAR 26, 2024 • Podcast
When the War Machine Decides: Algorithms, Secrets, and Accountability in Modern Conflict, with Brianna Rosen
Arthur Holland Michel and Oxford's Brianna Rosen discuss the war in Gaza, the U.S. drone program, and algorithmic decisions, transparency, and accountability.
APR 9, 2024 • Video
Algorithms of War: The Use of AI in Armed Conflict
From Gaza to Ukraine, the military applications of AI are fundamentally reshaping the ethics of war. How should policymakers navigate AI’s inherent trade-offs?
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Carnegie Ethics Accelerator
The Carnegie Ethics Accelerator is a new kind of incubator designed to empower ethics in the face of swiftly evolving challenges in technology and public policies.
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MAY 17, 2018 • Transcript
Virtual Emotion for Robot - Towards Human Support Robot
Robots do not have volition (free will) yet, so they are subject to human ethics as they are controlled by humans. But once they have ...
MAY 17, 2018 • Transcript
AI and Safety, with Kush Varshney
When it comes to machine learning, are safety and ethics the same thing?
MAY 17, 2018 • Transcript
AI, Public Policy, and Aging Society, with Yoshinori Hiroi
"The issues of aging are a common agenda for the industrialized countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. AI technology can be beneficial ...
MAY 17, 2018 • Transcript
Designing the Workplace with AI and Robots, with Arisa Ema
In Japan we used to hear the phrase "AI and robots will solve our social problems." But AI and robots also create other new social ...
MAY 17, 2018 • Transcript
Moral Machines, with Wendell Wallach
Can artificial agents make moral decisions? Do we want them to make moral decisions? When? For what? If so, whose ethics, whose values, are going ...
MAY 11, 2018 • Transcript
AI and Power, with Julia Powles
"I think it's a real tragedy that we are stumbling into a world where we are essentially resigned to the power, invisible or acknowledged, of ...
MAY 8, 2018 • Podcast
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, with Paul Scharre
"What happens when a predator drone has as much as autonomy as a self-driving car, moving to something that is able to do all of ...
MAY 8, 2018 • Podcast
The Living Legacy of WWI: Merchants of Death? The Politics of Defense Contracting, with Christopher Capozzola
In the 1930s during the run-up to WWII, many argued that arms manufacturers and bankers--"merchants of death"--had conspired to manipulate the U.S. ...
MAY 2, 2018 • Article
Disengagement Meets the Army of None
Author Paul Scharre presented his book "Army of None" at Carnegie Council on May 1. The book and his talk raise ethical questions about the the ...
APR 25, 2018 • Podcast
Us Vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, with Ian Bremmer
"The failure of globalism [an ideology of bringing people closer together] is very different than the failure of globalization," says Ian Bremmer. "I don't think ...