Category: Ethics
An ethical checklist for robot journalism
by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019 It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence…
AI BRIEFS: October 2019
KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston…
AI ethics and the limits of code(s) | NESTA
‘Ethics is more a habit or muscle, than a code (in either sense). It’s a way of thinking and reasoning,…
Fred Beneson: AI Is Coming for Your Favorite Menial Tasks | THE ATLANTIC
Fred Beneson wonders what happens when human jobs are only about tough decisions. AI systems are expected to take on…
The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines | Jobin et al
Seventy-four sets of ethical guidelines for AI have been developed since 2016, making a total of 84 ethics documents currently…
Meet the Researchers Working to Make Sure Artificial Intelligence Is a Force for Good | TIME
TIME PROFILES the AI Now Institute at NYU. The institute is dedicated to ‘ethically sound’ practices in AI development. The…
Editorial: International AI ethics panel must be independent | NATURE
The Editorial Board of NATURE says ‘governments have been slow to to prioritize the ethics of AI.’ The US and…
Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg, Stuart Russell: AI Algorithms Need FDA-style Drug Trials | WIRED
‘A software engineer can create an army of AI-powered bots, each pretending to be a different person, promoting content on…
What does an AI ethicist do? | WEF
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM DESCRIBES the emerging role of full-time ethicist at companies working with AI. They focus on how…
World Economic Forum Wants to Help Companies Avoid the Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I. | FORBES
An ethics toolkit for using AI in corporations is in the works by the World Economic Forum. Forbes reports the…
Deepfakes Pose Increasing Legal and Ethical Issues for Hollywood | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
When AI is used to show famous people expressing things they didn’t say, it’s called a deepfake. When it’s intentional,…
Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher: The Metamorphosis | THE ATLANTIC
‘the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order… What AI…
Alison Berthet: Why do emerging AI guidelines emphasize ‘ethics’ over human rights? | OpenGlobalRights
‘…ethics are much more easily manipulated to support a given company or government’s agenda, with limited recourse for anyone who…
The best books on Ethics for Artificial Intelligence recommended by Paula Boddington | FIVE BOOKS
‘Some of the ethical questions in AI are precisely about how we think of ourselves in the world.’ The author…
Editorial Board: The Guardian view on digital injustice – when computers make things worse | THE GUARDIAN
‘One key difference between the analogue bureaucracy of the traditional civil service and the digitised bureaucracy of artificial intelligence is…
G20 ministers agree on guiding principles for using artificial intelligence | JAPAN TIMES
Ministers from the G20 nations have agreed on principles for AI that ‘respect the principles of law, human rights and…
Beijing AI Principles | BEIJING ACADEMY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2019
A combination of universities, institutes, and companies have launched 15 principles to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence in China….
Recommendation of the Council on Artificial Intelligence | OECD 2019
‘A global reference point for trustworthy AI’ is how the OECD headlines this report from their Council on Artificial Intelligence….
Digital assistants like Siri and Alexa entrench gender biases, says UN | THE GUARDIAN
THE GUARDIAN reports that a UNESCO study says smart speakers like Siri and Alexa should not use female voices by…
Why we need a global response to AI ethics | WEF
‘Consider the following scenario: a car from China has different factory standards than a car from the US, but is…
Fei-Fei Li & Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation – The Coming AI Upheaval | Stanford 2019
Runs: 90m Discussion starts around 9:38, following introductions A wide-ranging conversation: ethics in society, hacking humans, free will, and more….
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI | EUROPEAN COMMISSION 2018
The EUROPEAN COMMISSION presents seven guidelines for trustworthy artificial intelligence. The Commission says they want to create ‘an environment of…
Google and Microsoft Warn That AI May Do Dumb Things | WIRED
‘Alphabet likes to position itself as a leader in AI research, but it was six months behind rival Microsoft in…
How Tech Giants Are Using AI Ethics Centres To Avoid Future Mishaps | ANALYTICS INDIA
‘As the world acknowledges the inevitability of AI and ML, the conversation has, however, shifted to its ethics, with governments…
Is It Possible For AI To Be Ethical? | ASIAN SCIENTIST
‘While the panellists agreed that it is impossible to have an ‘ethical AI’, they believe that ‘AI ethics’ is a…
China’s top AI scientist drives development of ethical guidelines | SCMP
‘Chen (Xiaoping), professor and director of the Robotics Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China, said AI…
Values, Ethics and Innovation: Rethinking Technological Development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | WEF 2018
THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM says beneficial outcomes should be the focus when making choices about technology. Technology reflects its makers,…
We know ethics should inform AI. But which ethics? | WEF
Ethical standards are likely to become as important at shaping global competition as technological standards have been since the 1980s….
7 principles from Google
‘We acknowledge that this area is dynamic and evolving, and we will approach our work with humility, a commitment to…
AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able? | HOUSE OF LORDS SELECT COMMITTEE ON AI 2018
The U.K. HOUSE OF LORDS SELECT COMMITTEE on AI has 74 recommendations for the future of artificial intelligence. Their exhaustive…