
UNSW awarded contract to develop framework for measuring ethical readiness of autonomous systems
ASU faculty members will be teaming with colleagues at Australia’s University of New South Wales Sydney to carry out research that will provide groundwork for an effort to develop guidelines to assess how autonomous systems, such as artificial intelligence, could perform effectively in ethically sensitive military situations. The effort is being funded through a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aimed at pioneering new research in military ethics and autonomous technologies. Faculty researchers 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 be involved in the project.