AI Ethics Is Especially Vexed By That AI Confinement Problem, Including The Knotty Particulars For Confining Autonomous Self-Driving Cars

AI Ethics Is Especially Vexed By That AI Confinement Problem, Including The Knotty Particulars For Confining Autonomous Self-Driving Cars

Will we be able to adequately confine AI when we need to do so? The famous illusionist and acclaimed escape artist Harry Houdini once boldly declared this rather unabashed assertion: "No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom." That seems like a pretty tall order. We would all generally agree that it is possible to imprison someone such that they are unable to escape. Human strength and ingenuity can only go so far when it comes to being placed into strictly devised confinement. If a prison or jail is stridently constructed with the idea of being escape-proof, it would seem that no person can overcome such all-encompassing constraints. Of course, throughout history, there have been notable cases of escapes from otherwise assumed impossible to get out of imprisonments. Going all the way back to the year 1244, a prisoner in the infamous Tower of London managed to craft a makeshift rope via the use of tattered bedsheets. He was able to partially escape by climbing down the flimsy cord. Turns out that the rope snapped amid his endeavor and he immediately thereupon