Author
Bunz; Mercedes ; Janciute; Laima
Year
2018
Publisher
University of Westminster Press
Language
English
Pages
4
ISBN
978-1-91153-481-5
Last Update
24-Sep-2025
Keywords
Political Science ; Business
Based on large amounts of data, computer systems have gained new abilities to perform tasks that so far required human intelligence, from image and speech recognition to decision-making or to automatic translation between languages. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) has already become widely used with wide-reaching economic, social and ethical implications. For that reason, inquiries into the ethical and social implications of current advances in AI are as urgent and essential as economic approaches.¹ The report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI), for which one of this brief’s authors (Dr Mercedes Bunz) gave oral evidence, is...