Showing posts with label need to educate people re limits of AI systems. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

AI Meets Ethics: Can the Resulting Problems Be Addressed?; Legaltech News, Law.com, August 22, 2018

Rhys Dipshan, Legaltech News, Law.com;

AI Meets Ethics: Can the Resulting Problems Be Addressed?

 

"For Johannes Stiehler, CTO at e-discovery and analytics company Ayfie, the ethical concerns with AI mostly relate back to the issue of accountability. “The question of culpability is going to be key to these ethical discussions, in law as much as in medicine,” he said...

A 2016 investigation by ProPublica found that COMPAS showed bias against African-American prisoners.

Katz, however, noted that bias in the criminal justice program would exist with or without AI.  “There are plenty of complaints of biases of judges and police,” he said, adding that it’s interesting that there is so much focus on fixing AI, but little focus on addressing human biases."