US Patent Issued to Trustees of Tufts College on May 13 for "Systems and methods for ensuring safe, norm-conforming and ethical behavior of intelligent systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,598, issued on May 13, was assigned to Trustees of Tufts College (Medford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for ensuring safe, norm-conforming and ethical behavior of intelligent systems" was invented by Matthias J. Scheutz (Boston) and Thomas H. Arnold (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods may ethically evaluate intelligent systems operating in a real-world environment. The systems and methods may generate a clone of the intelligent system, and test the clone in a simulation environment. If the clone passes the testing, the systems and methods may permit the intelligent system to continue operating in the re...