John Basl

John Basl, a Northeastern University philosophy professor who studies Artificial Intelligence ethics, said the website, which seems to depict autonomous robots that gained consciousness, aligns closely with the questions he pondered in his early years of AI research.

“I think a lot of the risks of AI are very pervasive and sort of hidden — like the fact that your doctor’s using it, your lawyer’s using it, and the way that may interact with you,” said John Basl, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University.

“I think a lot of the risks of AI are very pervasive and sort of hidden — like the fact that your doctor’s using it, your lawyer’s using it, and the way that may interact with you,” John Basl, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University. 

“It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism,” said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.

“We’re currently in a crisis period, where we lack the ethical capacity to solve this problem,” said John Basl, a Northeastern University philosopher who specializes in emerging technologies.

John Basl, associate director of AI and Data Ethics Initiatives at the Ethics Institute of Northeastern University, says the controversy is another instance of a “broader kind of failure” in artificial intelligence.

“A lot of ethical stars and superstars had spent a few years there before going on to other jobs,” said John Basl, a former assistant professor at Bowling Green who moved to Northeastern University in 2013.