How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out
Steve Lohr, New York Times, 2019/01/24
This article is just the very tip of what is a wider movement to design regulations for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. It reports on a workshop held at MIT as part of an OECD fact-finding project. But as this Metafilter article shows, OECD is hardly alone. Here are some related initiatives:

• Microsoft's approach to AI
• Google: Engaging policy stakeholders on issues in AI governance
• European Union: Draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI
• Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence (Obama administration)
• The Public Voice: AI Universal Guidelines

Mentioned in the comments as well is a paper called Fairness Through Awareness with a deliciously-titled appendix called "A catalog of evils". More...