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Opinion|Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

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   Re “How to Regulate Artificial Intelligence,” by Oren Etzioni (Op-Ed,
   Sept. 2):

   Last year, my lab at Georgia Tech created Jill Watson, an A.I.-powered
   virtual teaching assistant designed to help answer students’ questions
   in the discussion forum of an online class on artificial intelligence.
   To assess Jill’s performance properly, we chose not to reveal her
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   Mr. Etzioni characterized our experiment as an effort to “fool”
   students. The point of the experiment was to determine whether an A.I.
   agent could be indistinguishable from human teaching assistants on a
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   We believe that experiments like Jill are critical for deeply
   understanding the emerging ethics of artificial intelligence.