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.
Ethical AI Blog
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.
What ‘harm’ will AI do?
When assessing the risk of AI harm, different actors will view this concept through different lenses.
What is ‘High Risk’ AI?
The most common risk frameworks look at risk across two dimensions: impact versus the probability of that impact happening.
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?
Is there a trade-off between privacy & discrimination in algorithmic decision making?
Direct discrimination occurs when somebody is treated unfavourably because of an attribute such as age, disability, race, sexuality etc
There’s fairness and there’s procedural fairness
Procedural fairness is concerned with the procedures used by a decision maker, rather than the actual outcome reached.
Fairness – universally understood but hotly contested
If you are a parent in Australia and put bowls of ice cream in front of two siblings, the first thing they do is examine the quantity of ice cream in the other’s bowl.
What are the Ethical AI toolkits?
A toolkit can make all the difference when it comes to the application of ethical principles.