Responsible Intelligent Systems

Welcome to the Responsible Intelligent Systems website

As intelligent systems are integrated into our daily life more and more, the division, assignment and checking of responsibilities between human and artificial agents become increasingly important. From robots in medicine, the military and transportation (self-driving cars); to automated trading agents on the financial markets (algotrades); to automated monitoring, prediction and protection systems (pacemakers, automated surveillance, early warning systems); we delegate more and more responsibility to intelligent devices. In doing that, we run the risk of losing track of our indirect legal and moral liabilities.

24 October 2017

Interview Jan Broersen, Kunstmatige intelligentie: omarmen of wantrouwen?

Jan Broersen is recent geïnterviewd met betrekking tot kunstmatige intelligentie. Dit heeft geresulteerd in een interessant artikel over de vraag of we ...

20 October 2017

AlphaGo knows how to play Go extremely well now, or does it?

The guardian reports how a new version of Alpha-Go is now definitely the best Go player in the world, and it learned how to be that in just three days...

12 September 2017

Filosofisch Café + Radio-interview Jan Broersen

Dinsdag 10 oktober zal Jan Broersen te gast zijn in Café Hofman ten behoeve van het Filosofisch Café: Mobiel Moraal. Zelfrijdende auto’s zijn nog niet te ...

06 June 2017

Yet another misguided prediction about AI

New Scientist reports on a survey held among AI researchers who, according to the magazine, predict that around 2060 AI will outperform humans on every ...

31 May 2017

Trump explained as a first generation AI-system

The New-York Times has a very nice piece on explaining Trump as a first generation, simplistic, sub-symbolic AI system. It is spot on. It explains that ...

03 April 2017

Youtube and alternative facts

This blog is about this blog by Guillaume Chaslot. (Blogception). Chaslot is a programmer who formerly worked at both Microsoft and Google and now works ...

29 March 2017

The limits of a neural lace

Elon Musk is a great entrepreneur, visionair and environmentalist. But that does not imply that we should take all his ideas very seriously. And now I am ...

16 March 2017

Insurance, AI and big brother

A new startup is offering car insurance on the basis of your continuously monitored driving behaviour. The better your skills, or the more you use the ...

03 March 2017

Is it a good idea to use AI to fight fake news?

Not long ago Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to use AI to fight fake news on Facebook. His idea to use algorithms for assessing the truthfulness of webpages ...

16 February 2017

Nadenken over een wettelijke kader voor robotisering en AI

Ik ben het eens met collega De Cock-Buning dat de politiek, zoals wel vaker, achter de feiten aanloopt. Er moet natuurlijk eerst iets flink misgaan voordat ...