China’s top AI scientist drives development of ethical guidelines

The committee was looking into sectors such as data privacy, AI in medicine, self-driving vehicles, and

China is playing catch-up in the development of ethical guidelines in the field of artificial intelligence, with the establishment of an ethics committee.

Chen Xiaoping – inventor of Jia Jia, the realistic humanoid “Robot Goddess”, and KeJia, an intelligent home service robot – is leading the committee, which held its first conference last year and is due to meet again in May.