Showing posts with label technological innovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technological innovation. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

How to Avoid Ethical Red Flags in Your AI Projects; IEEE Spectrum, April 27, 2025

 , IEEE Spectrum; 

How to Avoid Ethical Red Flags in Your AI Projects 

IBM ethics expert Francesca Rossi shares her advice


"For AI solutions raising ethical red flags, we have an internal review process that may lead to modifications. Our assessment extends beyond the technology’s properties (fairness, explainability, privacy) to how it’s deployed. Deployment can either respect human dignity and agency or undermine it. We conduct risk assessments for each technology use case, recognizing that understanding risk requires knowledge of the context in which the technology will operate. This approach aligns with the European AI Act’s framework—it’s not that generative AI or machine learning is inherently risky, but certain scenarios may be high or low risk. High-risk use cases demand additional scrutiny.

In this rapidly evolving landscape, responsible AI engineering requires ongoing vigilance, adaptability, and a commitment to ethical principles that place human well-being at the center of technological innovation."

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Ethics: Taming our technologies; Nature, 8/17/16

Steven Aftergood, Nature; Ethics: Taming our technologies:
"Technological innovation in fields from genetic engineering to cyberwarfare is accelerating at a breakneck pace, but ethical deliberation over its implications has lagged behind. Thus argues Sheila Jasanoff — who works at the nexus of science, law and policy — in The Ethics of Invention, her fresh investigation. Not only are our deliberative institutions inadequate to the task of oversight, she contends, but we fail to recognize the full ethical dimensions of technology policy. She prescribes a fundamental reboot...
Jasanoff argues for an entirely new body of ethical discourse, going beyond technical risk assessment to give due weight to economic, cultural, social and religious perspectives."