The Troubling Future for Facial Recognition Software
There is promising, if somewhat slow, progress on making facial recognition software less biased.
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Technology’s Impact on Morality
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.—Freeman Dyson
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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Department of Defense officially adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of Artificial Intelligence today following recommendations provided to Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark T. Esper by the Defense Innovation Board last October.
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Responsible AI Guidelines
DIU launched a strategic initiative in March 2020 to implement the DoD’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its commercial prototyping and acquisition programs.
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The Department of Defense is issuing AI ethics guidelines for tech contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
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What To Do About Deepfakes
Research and development of synthetic media will be better served if technical experts see themselves as part of the solution, and not the problem.
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Can the Biases in Facial Recognition Be Fixed; Also, Should They?
Many facial recognition systems used by law enforcement are shot through with biases. Can anything be done to make them fair and trustworthy?
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AI Ethics: A Call to Faculty
To say that AI, today, is a technical discipline is entirely naive: it is a social, worldwide experiment. Our tools have teeth that cut into the everyday lives of all, and this leaves a collection of engineers and scientists in the awkward position of having far more impact on the future than is their due.
…But AI ethics is not the science of ethics, but rather shorthand for the notion of applying ethical considerations to issues surfaced by AI technologies: surveillance, information ownership, privacy, emotional manipulation, agency, autonomous military operations, and so forth.
Inside the fight to reclaim AI from Big Tech’s control
For years, Big Tech has set the global AI research agenda. Now, groups like Black in AI and Queer in AI are upending the field’s power dynamics to build AI that serves people.
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Responsible AI: Bridging From Ethics to Practice
These recommendations are meant to increase reliability, safety, and trustworthiness while increasing the benefits of AI technologies.
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How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem. [Not because he doesn’t want to, but because he is not allowed to as it would get in the way of profits.]
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Operationalizing AI Ethics Principles
What is the point of company-specific sets of principles if the content is largely the same, as we have seen? If well done, the point is that organizations with their own customized set of AI principles can determine how to weigh competing principles and which intrinsic value to prioritize when core principles (and theories) conflict.
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Crowdsourcing Moral Machines
“Crowdsourcing Moral Machines” Communications of the ACM, March 2020, Vol. 63 No. 3, Pages 48-55 Contributed Articles By Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Jean-François Bonnefon, Azim Shariff, Iyad Rahwan We believe that social scientists and computational social scientists have a pivotal …
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Should colleges really be putting smart speakers in dorms?
Administrators say installing listening devices like Alexa in student bedrooms and hallways could help lower dropout rates. Not everyone agrees.
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Increasing Automation in Policing
Policing has always relied upon large amounts of information. But the scale and speed of its processing is different.
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Smart Cities – Who Benefits?
Communications of the ACM, July 2019
By Susan J. Winter
“This column uses the case of smart cities to illustrate the ethical dilemmas created by an otherwise innocuous-seeming issue. … Cui bono, which means “who benefits?” … Cui bono? In principle, everyone. But a closer look at the smart cities rhetoric shows the benefits focused on a subset of the total.”
A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist
MIT Technology Review, February 21, 2019
By Sean Dorrance Kelly
“The capacity for genuine creativity, the kind of creativity that updates our understanding of the nature of being, is at the ground of what it is to be human.”
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