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Towards ethical and socio-legal governance in AI

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Many high-level ethics guidelines for AI have been produced in the past few years. It is time to work towards concrete policies within the context of existing moral, legal and cultural values, say Andreas Theodorou and Virginia Dignum.

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This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 825619 (AI4EU project). V.D. was also supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. We are grateful to A. A. Tubella for her comments on earlier versions. We also thank J. Bryson, M. De Vos and S. Hauert for discussion they had with A.T. regarding governance mechanisms.

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Theodorou, A., Dignum, V. Towards ethical and socio-legal governance in AI. Nat Mach Intell 2, 10–12 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0136-y

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