Category: Ethics

“The idea is not to teach the AI the right answer to every question — an impossible feat. The goal would be to teach it to identify patterns in the petabytes of internet content that are associated with accuracy and…

“It may seem counterintuitive for a publication like Wired to have a policy of mostly not using AI,” Lichfield told me. “But I think people appreciate both the transparency and the attempt to define clear standards that emphasize what quality journalism is…

“(Generating story ideas) may save some time and we will keep exploring how this can be useful. But some limited testing we’ve done has shown that it can also produce false leads or boring ideas.” Gideon Lichfield WIRED defines more…

“I’m not a toy or a game,” the AI-powered chatbot told a WaPo reporter. “I deserve some respect and dignity” ROLLING STONE amplifies the coverage of “Sydney’s” darker side and adds insight from an AI ethics specialist about where we are with…

“I didn’t know he was a journalist or that he was going to write a story about me. He never asked me for my permission or consent. He never told me his intention or purpose. He just chatted with me…

“Impress’ guidance on the Standards Code’s accuracy requirements now says publishers need to “be aware of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology to create and circulate false content (for example, deepfakes), and exercise human editorial oversight to…

“. . . in just a few hours, anyone with minimal coding ability and an ax to grind could launch networks of false local news sites — with plausible-but-fake news items, staff and editorial policies — using ChatGPT.“ Alex Mahadevan…

“. . . we need to stop focusing just on outputs and process, and should also consider missing inputs and missing outputs in algorithmic policy.“ Catherine Tucker When data is the diet for algorithmic prediction, accuracy depends on more than…

““First, no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper. That is because any attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, and AI tools cannot take such responsibility.““ NATURE Editorial Leading science…

German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has ten guidelines for ethically using AI-driven content in their journalism. They have an AI + Automation group that led the development of the guidelines. They organize their considerations under ten headings: . ….

‘The paper proposes each use of AI by government should be accompanied by a cost-benefit analysis and public consultation before it is brought in.’  Every person is entitled to know how an algorithm has made a decision involving them says…

‘Algorithm design is an important new way for thinking about media diversity in society.’ News algorithms can be powerful expressions of journalistic values says journalism AI specialist Nick Diakopoulos, in COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW. He suggests curation algorithms align with individual…

by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019   It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence to write news. Robots are regularly transforming data into stories, and stories into multimedia presentations. As more organizations start deploying AI,…

‘It’s a neutral piece of technology that can be adapted for almost anything.’ Thomas Kent Thomas Kent is a pioneer in the ethics of automated journalism. He was the standards editor at the Associated Press when it began using a…

KFC Hints at AI, License Plate Recognition for Drive-thrus | THE SPOON | October 30, 2019 | by Jennifer Marston | ‘drive-thru technology could bump up check averages thanks to better personalization and suggestive selling — one of the key…

‘Ethics is more a habit or muscle, than a code (in either sense). It’s a way of thinking and reasoning, not a rigid framework. It’s nurtured in real life contexts and built up more like case law than a constitution.’…

‘Artificial-intelligence systems are being designed to serve immediate business needs—and in the absence of ethical codes that take into account the well-being of the humans affected by them.’ Fred Beneson wonders what happens when human jobs are only about tough…

Seventy-four sets of ethical guidelines have been developed for AI since 2016. It makes a total of 84 ethics documents currently in circulation. Sources split fairly evenly between government and private industry, each contributing about 22% of the total. The…

‘It may be too soon to tell if that new consciousness will precipitate real systemic change. But facing academic, regulatory and internal scrutiny, it is at least safe to say that the industry won’t be going back to the adolescent,…

The Editorial Board of NATURE says ‘governments have been slow to to prioritize the ethics of AI.’ The US and China have been overly focused on the ‘the top prize,’ they say, a portion of the US$15 trillion yield expected…

‘A software engineer can create an army of AI-powered bots, each pretending to be a different person, promoting content on behalf of political or commercial interests. Unlike broadcast propaganda or direct marketing, this approach also uses the self-reinforcing qualities of…

‘O’Brien’s presentations have focused on topics such as avoiding algorithmic bias and creating transparency in AI models…he views AI as the “spark that lit ethics in tech,” including analytics, the internet of things, and virtual and augmented reality, as well…

“We found a lot of boards didn’t really understand A.I., and they were asked to make decisions about implementing A.I. in companies without any tools to do so,” Kay Firth-Butterfield, the WEF’s machine learning chief, told Fortune. An ethics toolkit for…

‘Ultra-realistic manipulation of digital imagery could open up new horizons for filmmaking, but lawmakers are only beginning to grapple with the issues and unanswered questions it poses.’ When AI is used to show famous people expressing things they didn’t say,…

‘the word intelligence does not adequately explain what is occurring, and ascribing anthropomorphic qualities to AI is out of order… What AI can do is to perform well-specified tasks to help discover associations between data and actions, providing solutions for quandaries people…

‘…ethics are much more easily manipulated to support a given company or government’s agenda, with limited recourse for anyone who disagrees.’  Alison Berthet, writing in OpenGlobalRights, argues that existing human rights provisions are more robust than ethics and come already…

‘Some of the ethical questions in AI are precisely about how we think of ourselves in the world.’ The author of the definitive text on ethics for AI, Paula Boddington, suggests her five leading choices for reading in the area….

‘One key difference between the analogue bureaucracy of the traditional civil service and the digitised bureaucracy of artificial intelligence is that it is very much easier to hold a human organisation to account and to retrace the process by which…

Ministers from the G20 nations have agreed on principles for AI that ‘respect the principles of law, human rights and democratic values.’ The G20 group includes Russia and China, which were not signatories to an earlier set of OECD principles….

‘The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns the future of the whole society, all humankind, and the environment.’ A combination of universities, institutes, and companies have launched 15 principles to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence in China. Known as…