Matt O'Brien and Rachel Lerman, AP; Real or artificial? Tech titans declare AI ethics concerns
"The biggest tech companies want you to know that they’re taking
special care to ensure that their use of artificial intelligence to sift
through mountains of data, analyze faces or build virtual assistants
doesn’t spill over to the dark side.
But their efforts to assuage
concerns that their machines may be used for nefarious ends have not
been universally embraced. Some skeptics see it as mere window dressing
by corporations more interested in profit than what’s in society’s best
interests.
“Ethical AI” has become a new corporate buzz phrase,
slapped on internal review committees, fancy job titles, research
projects and philanthropic initiatives. The moves are meant to address
concerns over racial and gender bias emerging in facial recognition and
other AI systems, as well as address anxieties about job losses to the
technology and its use by law enforcement and the military.
But
how much substance lies behind the increasingly public ethics
campaigns? And who gets to decide which technological pursuits do no
harm?"
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019
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