Regularizing Artificial Intelligence Ethics in the Indo-Pacific, GLA-TR-002
involved. The new technologies should require a standardization such as technical standards and certification to increase economic efficiency, reduce asymmetrical data sharing among consumers and stakeholders. The regulatory intervention is also essential in cases where AI technologies can potentially produce risks or harms by degrading the human environment, safety. In such a case rights and interests must be assessed and formulate regulations that ensures protection of rights, evaluate safety concerns such as in the case of lethal autonomous weapons, cybersecurity, privacy, and data concerns. As a result, instead of placing primary focus on the emerging technology of AI, the regulatory system and the rationale behind the regulatory ecosystem should place a reliance on the socioeconomic impact or changes that can be effectuated through the deployment of the AI technologies or applications (Moses, 2017). More reliance of the regulatory ecosystem should be placed on the sociotechnical effects that occur and thereby replacing an overbroad pressure on technocentric approach that is not specific to a particular technology making the projections of regulatory regime obsolete for any future technologies that is subject to advancement and research.
The Proposed Regulatory Approach 1. Gaining Politico-Legal Consensus for Commonalities on the Regulatory Approach It is an absolute imperative that legal & political agreeability needs to be reached in the Indo-Pacific Region in order to ensure that the appropriate developments come & that they come to stay & evolve for the better. It is suggested that three primary themes emerged which need to be looked into, namely - Domestic Division, Uncertainty & Hedging. Domestic Division: All the countries have had the constant concern that their own national policies &/or the policies of the potential partner(s) are differentiated into two lobbies. The perception has been that large sections of political and economic communities are looking towards closer ties with China, while defence, intelligence
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