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Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI

Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI

Tech Firms Move to Put Ethical Guard Rails Around AI

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

May 23, 201810m 18s

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One day last summer, Microsoft’s director of artificial intelligence research, Eric Horvitz, activated the Autopilot function of his Tesla sedan. The car steered itself down a curving road near Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, freeing his mind to better focus on a call with a nonprofit he had cofounded around the ethics and governance of AI. Then, he says, Tesla’s algorithms let him down. “The car didn’t center itself exactly right,” Horvitz recalls.

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