Citation

Davidovic J. Front. Big Data 2022; 5: e1017677.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Frontiers Media)

DOI

10.3389/fdata.2022.1017677

PMID

36700136

PMCID

PMC9868906

Abstract

Meaningful human control over AI is exalted as a key tool for assuring safety, dignity, and responsibility for AI and automated decision-systems. It is a central topic especially in fields that deal with the use of AI for decisions that could cause significant harm, like AI-enabled weapons systems. This paper argues that discussions regarding meaningful human control commonly fail to identify the purpose behind the call for meaningful human control and that stating that purpose is a necessary step in deciding how best to institutionalize meaningful human control over AI. The paper identifies 5 common purposes for human control and sketches how different purpose translate into different institutional design.

Language: en

Keywords

war; ethics; machine learning and AI; meaningful human control; robots