Machine behaviour.

Journal: Nature
Published Date:

Abstract

Machines powered by artificial intelligence increasingly mediate our social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Understanding the behaviour of artificial intelligence systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits and minimize their harms. Here we argue that this necessitates a broad scientific research agenda to study machine behaviour that incorporates and expands upon the discipline of computer science and includes insights from across the sciences. We first outline a set of questions that are fundamental to this emerging field and then explore the technical, legal and institutional constraints on the study of machine behaviour.

Authors

  • Iyad Rahwan
    The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA. irahwan@mit.edu.
  • Manuel Cebrian
    The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
  • Nick Obradovich
    Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Josh Bongard
    University of Vermont.
  • Jean-François Bonnefon
    Toulouse School of Economics (TSM-Research), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, 31015, France.
  • Cynthia Breazeal
    Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Jacob W Crandall
    Computer Science Department, Brigham Young University, 3361 TMCB, Provo, UT, 84602, USA. crandall@cs.byu.edu.
  • Nicholas A Christakis
    Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
  • Iain D Couzin
    Department of Collective Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Konstanz, Germany.
  • Matthew O Jackson
    Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Nicholas R Jennings
    Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK.
  • Ece Kamar
    Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA.
  • Isabel M Kloumann
    Facebook AI, Facebook Inc, New York, NY, USA.
  • Hugo Larochelle
    University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke QC J1K 2R1, Canada hugo.larochelle@usherbrooke.ca.
  • David Lazer
    Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Richard McElreath
    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
  • Alan Mislove
    College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA.
  • David C Parkes
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA. parkes@eecs.harvard.edu wellman@umich.edu.
  • Alex 'Sandy' Pentland
    Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Margaret E Roberts
    Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
  • Azim Shariff
    Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
  • Joshua B Tenenbaum
    Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. gershman@fas.harvard.edu horvitz@microsoft.com jbt@mit.edu.
  • Michael Wellman
    Computer Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.