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"EHLO WORLD" -- Checking If Your Conversational AI Knows Right from Wrong

Computers and Society 2020-06-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

In this paper we discuss approaches to evaluating and validating the ethical claims of a Conversational AI system. We outline considerations around both a top-down regulatory approach and bottom-up processes. We describe the ethical basis for each approach and propose a hybrid which we demonstrate by taking the case of a customer service chatbot as an example. We speculate on the kinds of top-down and bottom-up processes that would need to exist for a hybrid framework to successfully function as both an enabler as well as a shepherd among multiple use-cases and multiple competing AI solutions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2006.10437,
  title  = {"EHLO WORLD" -- Checking If Your Conversational AI Knows Right from Wrong},
  author = {Elayne Ruane and Vivek Nallur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10437},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, SoCAI 2020 : AISB Symposium on Conversational AI

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