VR, Deepfakes and Epistemic Security

In recent years, technological advancements in the AI and VR fields have increasingly often been paired with considerations on ethics and safety aimed at mitigating unintentional design failures. However, cybersecurity-oriented AI and VR safety research has emphasized the need to additionally appraise instantiations of intentional malice...

Epistemic defenses against scientific and empirical adversarial AI attacks

In this paper, we introduce “scientific and empirical adversarial AI attacks” (SEA AI attacks) as umbrella term for not yet prevalent but technically feasible deliberate malicious acts of specifically crafting AI-generated samples to achieve an epistemic distortion in (applied) science or engineering contexts. In view of possible socio-psycho...

Transdisciplinary AI Observatory—Retrospective Analyses and Future-Oriented Contradistinctions

In the last years, artificial intelligence (AI) safety gained international recognition in the light of heterogeneous safety-critical and ethical issues that risk overshadowing the broad beneficial impacts of AI. In this context, the implementation of AI observatory endeavors represents one key research direction. This paper motivates the need...

Artificial creativity augmentation

Sustainable AI safety?

In recent years, the need to address the multi-faceted issue of AI governance with safety-relevant, ethical and legal implications at an international level is becoming increasingly itical. Simultaneously, the international community is facing a wide array of global challenges for which the United Nations initiated an agenda with 17 ambitious...

Error-correction for AI safety

The complex socio-technological debate underlying safetycritical and ethically relevant issues pertaining to AI development and deployment extends across heterogeneous research subfields and involves in part conflicting positions. In this context, it seems expedient to generate a minimalistic joint transdisciplinary basis disambiguating the...

Facing Immersive “Post-Truth” in AIVR?

In recent years, prevalent global societal issues related to fake news, fakery, misinformation, and disinformation were brought to the fore, leading to the construction of descriptive labels such as “post-truth” to refer to the supposedly new emerging era. Thereby, the (mis-)use of technologies such as AI and VR has been argued to potentially...

Orthogonality-based disentanglement of responsibilities for ethical intelligent systems

Augmented Utilitarianism for AGI Safety

In the light of ongoing progresses of research on artificial intelligent systems exhibiting a steadily increasing problem-solving ability, the identification of practicable solutions to the value alignment problem in AGI Safety is becoming a matter of urgency. In this context, one preeminent challenge that has been addressed by multiple...

Requisite variety in ethical utility functions for AI value alignment

Hybrid Strategies Towards Safe “Self-Aware” Superintelligent Systems

Against the backdrop of increasing progresses in AI research paired with a rise of AI applications in decision-making processes, security-critical domains as well as in ethically relevant frames, a large-scale debate on possible safety measures encompassing corresponding long-term and short-term issues has emerged across different disciplines....