Control, Care, And Convenience AI-based Applications and Levels of Invasiveness

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Title: Control, Care, And Convenience AI-based Applications and Levels of Invasiveness: In-Body, On-Body, Or External

Abstract:

One of the major areas in which autonomous systems are said to make a great contribution is in those related to medical AI for human well-being. If we place such responsibility upon technologies to sustain life or at least enhance it, we must be ready to introduce commensurate safeguards during the design process of such systems. Advanced autonomous systems must have global privacy and security by design principles embedded. Hacks as we know them today will morph as our innovations become more complex and we witness an explosion in the number of IP-based devices that are wholly unsupervised by external systems. We may well see hackers become predatory by default in their intent, when a security breach—accidental or deliberate—could cause an instant fatality or series of fatalities. In emerging biomedical innovations in the brain that are there to help sustain life, such as brain implantable technologies for Parkinson’s disease sufferers or those suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD), a hack to a sensitive component might cause human distress or worse. In effect, this is an example of predatory hacking that has the capacity to affect an individual sufferer with a near fatal blow depending on the circumstances. This has been cleverly named “death by Internet” by researcher Joseph Carvalko.

When a decision is delegated to autonomous systems (i.e., machine-to-machine) without a human in the loop and without ethical alignment, the decision and flow on outcomes may be fraught with danger if not tested and verified extensively. Additionally, when human-centric machines interact with external machines, or receive inputs from machines, interventions to these transactional flows of information can be compromised. One way of protecting the security of a system is by continually investing in proprietary solutions that are closed and not known to the open market, despite that patents are supposed to reveal the inner workings of the invention. Traditionally, these kinds of developments in products have also been known as “black boxes” in a different sense, that is, their inner workings are to a great degree unknown. The algorithm (i.e., software) in the hardware is protected by a patent, and the nuts and bolts are secret to a given organization who conceived of the unique approach, in order to protect its intellectual property and market advantage. How will this play out in future court cases?

Affiliation:

Professor

School for the Future of Innovation in Society

School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering

Director, Society Policy Engineering Collective

Arizona State University

Biography:

Katina Michael is a professor at Arizona State University, holding a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing, Informatics and Decisions Systems Engineering. She is also the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Katina is a senior member of the IEEE and a Public Interest Technology advocate who studies the social implications of technology. She has held 13 annual workshops in the social implications of national security space and chaired 3 international symposia on technology and society (ISTAS) in Wollongong, Toronto and Phoenix. She is the Senior Editor of the socio-economic impact section in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine and was the editor in chief of the award-winning IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. In 2019 she took on the role of working group chair for the IEEE P2089 standard. In 2017, she received the Brian M. O'Connell SSIT Distinguished Service Award. 

In the 1990s, Katina was employed as a senior network planner at Nortel Networks and systems analyst at Andersen Consulting and OTIS. In 2002 she entered academia as a lecturer at the University of Wollongong and in 2013 became a member of the executive team in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences as the Associate Dean – International, overseeing 8 partner and twinning arrangements for the University in the UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, China and Hong Kong. Katina completed a Masters degree in transnational crime prevention in the Faculty of Law with a UOW postgraduate scholarship in 2007, and was later invited to teach cybercrime in the law school. Her PhD was on systems of innovation in the automatic identification industry.

Web site: www.katinamichael.com

Contact: Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala, Puneet Kumar Mishra

Citation: Katina Michael, 2020, “Control, Care, And Convenience AI-based Applications and Levels of Invasiveness”, IEEE Bangalore, https://btc.ieeebangalore.org/