‘British DARPA’ to build AI gatekeepers for ‘quantitative safety guarantees’

A British R&D unit today unveiled a futuristic vision of “quantitative safety guarantees” for AI. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) compares the guarantees to the high safety standards in nuclear power and passenger aviation. In the case of machine learning, the standards involve a probabilistic guarantee that no harm will result from a particular action. At the core of ARIA’s plan is a “gatekeeper” AI.  This digital sentinel will ensure th