AI Ethics
Everything about ethics and responsible development of artificial intelligence, algorithmic biases, and AI failures.
Collection by Dominik Grolimund
Quartz
MIT developed a course to teach tweens about the ethics of AI
5 min · · The open source, middle-school curriculum helps make kids aware of how AI systems mediate their lives, from YouTube to Alexa to Google and social media. · Shared by 40, including Howard Getson, Thomas Power, Dominik Grolimund, Dean Anthony Gratton, Scott McLeod, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu, Evan Selinger
techxplore.com
'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules
2 min · · Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency". · Shared by 37, including Thomas Power, Florian Hanke 🍎, Andreas Staub, Tamara McCleary, Dominik Grolimund, Terence Mills
ZORA
A.I. Is Not as Advanced as You Might Think
6 min · · It starts with the systems it was built off of · Shared by 33, including Katja Evertz, Dominik Grolimund, Bertrand Maltaverne
The Guardian
'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley
5 min · · As algorithms play a growing role in criminal justice, education and more, tech advisory boards and academic programs mirror real-world inequality · Shared by 30, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dominik Grolimund, Gerd Leonhard, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos
Futurism
Terrifying AI matches DNA to facial recognition databases
1 min · · Shared by 27, including Dominik Grolimund, Charles Baldwin, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ
Towards Data Science
Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li on Artificial Intelligence: Four Questions that Impact All of Us
14+ min · · Four Questions that Impact Each of Us · Shared by 27, including Howard Getson, Dominik Grolimund
Financial Times
How Big Tech is struggling with the ethics of AI
· Companies criticised for overruling and even dissolving ethics boards · Shared by 24, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Dominik Grolimund, Antonio Vieira Santos, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Ars Technica
Yes, “algorithms” can be biased. Here’s why
7 min · · Op-ed: a computer scientist weighs in on the downsides of AI. · Shared by 21, including Dominik Grolimund, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Clemens M. Schuster
Fast Company
Seven very simple steps to design more ethical AI
4 min · · Users must be empowered, not overpowered, by technology. The only way to stop questionable AI from collecting and using personal data is to design it with the end user in mind. · Shared by 20, including Dominik Grolimund, Resh Sidhu, Marc R Gagné MAPP
Futurism
A new algorithm trains AI to erase its biases
1 min · · Machines are training machines to stop discriminating against people. · Shared by 20, including Andreas Staub, Dominik Grolimund, Klaus Eck
Harvard Business Review
Addressing the Biases Plaguing Algorithms
4 min · · Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook still haven’t figured it out. · Shared by 18, including Dominik Grolimund, Antonio Vieira Santos
VICE
Racial Bias in AI Isn’t Getting Better and Neither Are Researchers’ Excuses
5 min · · Another machine learning algorithm has failed to work for people of color. What is it going to take for this to stop? · Shared by 17, including Nicolas Babin, Dominik Grolimund
The Verge
The problem with AI ethics
7 min · · Are AI ethics boards actually helping anyone? · Shared by 17, including Dominik Grolimund
Deloitte Insights
Can AI be ethical?
9 min · · With AI applications becoming ubiquitous in and out of the workplace, can the technology be controlled to avoid unintended or adverse outcomes? Organizations are launching a range of initiatives to… · Shared by 15, including Dominik Grolimund, Bertrand Maltaverne, 瑞拿頭
IEEE
Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s
4 min · · A medical school thought a computer program would make the admissions process fairer—but it did just the opposite · Shared by 13, including Dominik Grolimund
Forbes
The Growing Marketplace For AI Ethics
5 min · · A brief roundup of some of the more influential ethical-AI frameworks and models to emerge around the globe—from the Asilomar Principles to best-practice recommendations from the AI Now Institute and… · Shared by 11, including Booz Allen Hamilton, Gerd Leonhard, Dominik Grolimund