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Think of the Defense Department’s new list of Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence as a starting framework to help guide the thinking of people who will ultimately make the hard decisions: what’s right or wrong, then how to teach a machine to tell the difference.

In a special public lecture Feb. 25 at the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, Mark Sirangelo, a Scholar-in-Residence in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and a member of the Defense Innovation Board, or DIB, talked unofficially about how he views the new principles—opinions his own—presenting the lecture in a private capacity as part of his faculty role.