6. Ethical aspects

6.1 Introduction

Recent successes have brought AI into our daily lives. But AI also raises concerns, sometimes fueled by representations of science-fiction scenarios. It therefore requires a regulatory framework to guarantee its ethical nature.

Ethics remind us that what is technologically possible is not always humanly desirable. So we need to identify the risks and ensure that AI development is genuinely at the service of humanity. The problem is not new, and has arisen in the same way for nuclear energy, genetic manipulation and cloning, etc.

Europe plays a major role in the field of ethics. The EU set up the High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence, which published a document for Trustworthy AI, useful and at the service of human...