Summary

The Asilomar Principles are organized under three headings: research issues; ethics and values; and longer-term issues (Asilomar, 2017). Some discussions (eg. Floridi, et.al., 2018, note 5) omit consideration of the research issues (arguing "they are related specifically to the practicalities of AI development"), however they set an important ethical standard, specifically, " to create not undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence" (Asilomar, 2017). Similarly, the suggested direction of research funding to, for example, "grow our prosperity through automation" and "update our legal systems to be more fair and efficient", suggest ethical cornerstones.
The principles themselves reflect a broadly progressive social agenda, "compatible with ideals of human dignity, rights, freedoms, and cultural diversity," recognizing the need for personal privacy, individual liberty, and also the idea that "AI technologies should benefit and empower as many people as possible" and "the economic prosperity created by AI should be shared broadly, to benefit all of humanity." (Asilomar, 2017)

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