
ASU researchers awarded DARPA contract to develop framework for measuring ethical readiness of autonomous systems
Faculty members in three of the Fulton Schools — the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence and The Polytechnic School — will have roles in a U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, project aimed at pioneering new research in military ethics to guide the use of autonomous technologies. Working under a contract granted through DARPA’s Autonomy Standards and Ideals with Military Operational Values program, the project will aim to establish benchmarks to assess how well autonomous systems, including those employing artificial intelligence, can handle complex, ethically sensitive situations in military settings. ASU is partnering on the project with King’s College London and the University of New South Wales.