Machine Behaviour unveiled in Nature

Understanding the behavior of AI systems is essential to our ability to control their actions, reap their benefits, and minimize their harms, says Iain Couzin in a new Nature paper.

A diverse group of researchers—including Iain Couzin from the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour and Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior—has introduced the field of Machine Behaviour. Their paper, published in Nature, makes the case that AI systems should no longer be viewed as human-made objects, but rather a new class of actors with their own behavioral patterns and ecology. Machine Behaviour, they argue, is the new wide-ranging field aimed at understanding the behavior of artificial intelligence systems.

Read a full-length article on the paper Machine Behaviour published by the MIT Media Lab, which led the study.

Read the original study in Nature.