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.

28 December 2018

Neural network hardware is coming

I do not understand why AI watchers and pundits do not pay more attention to Elon Musk’s endeavour to build a special purpose neural network computer ...

24 December 2018

The fantasies around “basic AI drives”

Through this well written, but I think misguided article in Vox about why we have to take the dangers of AI seriously, I came across the paper of Stephen ...

21 December 2018

Closing conference REINS project

Responsible Intelligent Systems: Concepts, Practices and Formal Models 11-13 February 2018, Utrecht, the Netherlands In this symposium we look back at some ...

19 October 2018

Wat are the origins of bias in AI systems?

In this video on the ethics of AI, professor Shannon Vallor says “Machines are not racist, machines are not sexist, machines are not ableist or ...

10 October 2018

Can we build artificial moral agents using machine learning?

It has been suggested by several people that we can use machine learning to build artificial moral agents. In my opinion that is a mistake. This article ...

Fighting fake news using AI is very hard

Fighting fake news using AI techniques is way harder than many people (including Mark Zuckerberg) think. This article reports on some approaches and admits ...

04 May 2018

Workshop on Collective Responsibility, Joint Action, and Participation

The workshop on Collective Responsibility, Joint Action, and Participation will take place in Utrecht on May 17th, 2018. The workshop is associated with ...

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 by ...

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 ...