When is it OK for AI to lie?
As artificial intelligence advances in more sophisticated ways, the technology will gain new capabilities — including the ability to evade telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in certain situations. At the Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society conference, Subbarao Kambhampati, a Fulton Schools professor of computer science, and his former graduate student Tathagata Chakraborti (second from right in photo) explored scenarios in which it might be permissible for AI to be a bit deceptive in its interactions with humans.