Ethically Aligned Design of Autonomous Systems: Industry viewpoint and an empirical study

Understand

Progress in the field of artificial intelligence has been accelerating rapidly in the past two decades.

• Various autonomous systems from purely digital ones to autonomous vehicles are being developed and deployed out on the field.
• As these systems exert a growing impact on society, ethics in relation to artificial intelligence and autonomous systems have recently seen growing attention among the academia.
• However, the current literature on the topic has focused almost exclusively on theory and more specifically on conceptualization in the area.