Re: “Ethical dilemmas of AI need illumination” (Feb. 12, Opinion):
Within the editorial, the board writes that executives at Microsoft wrote on an organization weblog submit: “Regulation (of AI) needs to be applied provided that its advantages outweigh its prices.”
Their assertion is complicated for at the very least two causes: (1) regulation would undoubtedly be needed if the prices exceeded the advantages; and (2) the necessary coverage points depend on the distribution of the prices, advantages and dangers. In conditions the place a brand new expertise provides advantages to a sure section of the inhabitants, however imposes prices and dangers on others, regulation is certainly wanted. This may definitely be the case with AI.
Some will win, and others will lose. However Microsoft executives appear to have ignored this differentiation of their social calculus.
Philip L. Bereano, Seattl
