Rethinking the ethics of AI - and ours
While “human ethics” has been debated for thousands of years, “machine ethics” is just emerging. Answers to “machine ethics” questions will have great impact on our society going forward - and huge implications for all, from businesses that face new AI risks, to politicians and citizens who may see democracies at risk due to, well, algorithms.
Edmond Awad, Sydney Levine and Theos Evgeniou
AS investments and innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) grow, impacting all aspects of our lives from how we consume to improved medical treatments or to how we redesign our future transportation or energy systems, alarm regarding the potential risks these technologies can create is also becoming increasingly stronger.
Already organisations such as the OECD or Partnership in AI are setting up AI incidents databases to track potential undesirable behaviours of these technologies as they get deployed and used. Risks range from straightforward safety ones - such as an autonomous vehicle creating an accident - to more “nuanced” ones, for example related to potential discrimination that AI can lead to, in domains ranging from credit scoring, hiring, facial recognition-based security systems, to personalised pricing, etc.
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