AI violates privacy. AI-generated output can’t be explained. AI is biased.
This is all true, and is happening today, and there’s a risk of these issues accelerating as AI adoption grows. Before the lawsuits start flowing and government regulators start cracking down, organizations using AI need to become more proactive and formulate actionable AI ethics policies.
But an effective AI ethics policy requires more than some feel-good statements. It requires actions, built into an AI ethics-aware culture. “An AI ethics statement is a nice start. It’s also the tip of the iceberg,” relates Reid Blackman, who explores AI ethics in his upcoming book, Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent and Respectful AI (Harvard Business Review Press). “Even those who spend a lot of time talking about and even working in the field of AI ethics have a lot of difficulty understanding what’s to be done. That’s because they’re trying to build structure around something they still find squishy, fuzzy, and subjective.”
Blackman, CEO of Virtue, seeks to turn something as “squishy” as AI ethics into something concrete. He provides guidelines to instilling actionable ethics into AI systems and processes.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2022/06/10/7-steps-to-more-ethical-artificial-intelligence/?sh=5534d8254c45
This is all true, and is happening today, and there’s a risk of these issues accelerating as AI adoption grows. Before the lawsuits start flowing and government regulators start cracking down, organizations using AI need to become more proactive and formulate actionable AI ethics policies.
But an effective AI ethics policy requires more than some feel-good statements. It requires actions, built into an AI ethics-aware culture. “An AI ethics statement is a nice start. It’s also the tip of the iceberg,” relates Reid Blackman, who explores AI ethics in his upcoming book, Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent and Respectful AI (Harvard Business Review Press). “Even those who spend a lot of time talking about and even working in the field of AI ethics have a lot of difficulty understanding what’s to be done. That’s because they’re trying to build structure around something they still find squishy, fuzzy, and subjective.”
Blackman, CEO of Virtue, seeks to turn something as “squishy” as AI ethics into something concrete. He provides guidelines to instilling actionable ethics into AI systems and processes.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2022/06/10/7-steps-to-more-ethical-artificial-intelligence/?sh=5534d8254c45
