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AI ethics: Maybe robots won’t kill us if they read ‘good’ books

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http://www.futurity.org/stories-robots-e...1105812-2/

EXCERPT: The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised some fears that robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical behavior if there is no “user manual” for being human?

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology believe the answer lies in “Quixote“—a technique that teaches “value alignment” to robots by training them to read stories, learn acceptable sequences of events, and understand successful ways to behave in human societies. They presented the technique at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science....
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