Ethical AI Blog
Here we bring to you the stories of ethics, artificial intelligence and what happens when robots go bad, are unethical or work against humanity…
A Method for Ethical AI in Defence – new report and toolkit
Defence’s challenge is that failure to adopt the emerging technologies in a timely manner may result in a military disadvantage, while premature adoption without sufficient research and analysis may result in inadvertent harms.
Bad Robots: Uber’s “Robo-Firings” Challenged in Court by Former Drivers
If you drive for Uber, you can be terminated by an algorithm. Four former drivers who faced such dismissals have brought suit against the ride-sharing behemoth.
Open Loop – Facebook’s policy prototyping sandbox.
Open Loop is a collaborative initiative supported by Facebook to contribute practical insights into policy debates by prototyping and testing approaches to regulation before they are enacted.
Bad Robots: China Uses Artificial Intelligence to Target Uighur Muslim Population
The Chinese government has been involved in wide scale human rights violations against the Uighur Muslim population of Xinjiang.
Bad Robots: Policing Algorithms Reinforce Existing Racial & Socioeconomic Biases
What happens when the algorithmic tools they elect to use end up reinforcing, or even worsening, longstanding and problematic biases toward BIPOC?
What ‘harm’ will AI do?
When assessing the risk of AI harm, different actors will view this concept through different lenses.
Bad Robots: “Filter Bubbles” Control The Information We See Online & Drive Us Apart
These “filter bubbles” are widening the gaps between us and even creating dangerous political instability.
What is ‘High Risk’ AI?
The most common risk frameworks look at risk across two dimensions: impact versus the probability of that impact happening.
Bad Robots: Secretive Facial Recognition Software Company Challenged in Court by Civil Liberties Watchdog
Your face is likely somewhere in a database of nearly three billion images that have been scraped from millions of websites.
Bad Robots: Algorithms Used by Chinese Food Delivery Apps Create Danger for Drivers and Others
Two of China’s most popular food delivery services came under fire after the wide scale publicization of the perils to their workers.
Diversity from the bottom up – beyond technical debiasing
Recently, on a tech forum site, a contributor made the following simple, but insightful statement
A Path from Ethical Principles to Law
The purpose of ethics and the law are often distinct yet the EU is on a path to turn ethical principles into legal rules. Is this the right approach?