A new artificial intelligence ethics (AI) board was announced this week by Axon — the US company behind the taser weapon — but the AI ethics board many people still want to know about remains shrouded in mystery. Google quietly set up an AI ethics board in 2014 following the £400 million acquisition of a London AI lab called DeepMind, which hopes to one day build machines with human-level intelligence that will have a profound impact on the society we live in. Axon said the board's mission is to advise and guide Axon's leaders on the impact of AI technology on communities. This is why we've created the AI ethics board — to ensure any AI technology in public safety is developed responsibly." The Axon AI ethics board has pledged to pay particularly close attention to Axon's development of facial recognition technology, which, could be seen as an invasion of privacy and a move towards the surveillance state depicted in George Orwell's "1984".

Source: Forbes April 28, 2018 00:33 UTC