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The time has come for all those working in AI to take the issue of professionalism seriously. Professional standards will be difficult to establish in AI. However, there will be pressure from various directions to produce a code or codes which will demonstrate that work is being done responsibly. Such codes will be largely worthless unless they are produced by people actually working at the ‘sharp end’ of AI.
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Whitby, B. Professionalism and AI. Artif Intell Rev 2, 133–139 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140401
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00140401