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With great power, as they say, comes great responsibility.#AI is powerful because the results are transferable from one domain to another.– @BulentKIzILtan, fomer head of Deep Learning @Aetna #cxotalk #HealthTech— Michael Krigsman #CXOTALK (@mkrigsman…
At the @BritishAcademy_ yesterday evening for a lecture by Onora O’Neill on Ethical Communication in a Digital Age, supported by two more philosophy professors, Rowan Cruft and Rae Langton.Much of the discussion was about the threats posed to public re…
Excellent article by @riptari, providing some context for Gartner’s current position on ethics and privacy.Gartner has been talking about digital ethics for a while now – for example, it got a brief mention on the Gartner website last year. But now dig…
A lot of ethical judgements appear to be binary ones. Good versus bad. Acceptable versus unacceptable. Angels versus Devils.Where questions of ethics reach the public sphere, it is common for people to take strong positions for or against. For example,…
The purpose of this blogpost is to enumerate the declared ethical positions of major players in the data world. This is a work in progress.GoogleIn June 2018, Sundar Pinchai (Google CEO) announced a set of AI principles for Google. This inclu…
Over the past twelve months or so, we have seen a big shift in the public attitude towards new technology. More people are becoming aware of the potential abuses of data and other cool stuff. Scandals involving Facebook and other companies have been he…
In the real world, ethics is rarely if ever the primary focus. People engaging with practical issues may need guidance or prompts to engage with ethical questions, as well as appropriate levels of governance.@JPSlosar calls for”a set of easily recogni…
@riptari (Natasha Lomas) has a few questions for DeepMind’s AI ethics research unit. She suggests that”it really shouldn’t need a roster of learned academics and institutions to point out the gigantic conflict of interest in a commercial AI giant resea…
GUEST BLOG POST, FROM DREW GREEN As a voracious media consumer, I’m exposed to a mind-numbing amount of advertising. Enough that trends start to emerge. One recent trend standing out more than others is an influx of “cause marketing” tactics, where bra…
Ten days ago, when I wrote the post “Uber and the Cost of a Culture of Corruption”, I said that assuming there will be negative consequences (both legal and financial) from the incidents in the news, then it is in Uber’s best interests to fix the problem that led to them in the first place. […]
Even before I hit the “Publish” button on Monday’s post, “Regulating Software Development”, I had already started composing this post in my head. In that post I had used the words “corrupt culture” in passing. I needed to expand on that, because I believe that’s what lies at the heart of Uber’s cascading collection of […]
Another weekend, another too good to pass up Twitter conversation during my “unplugged” time. This weekend, Grady Booch hooked me by retweeting Mike Potts tweet: Mike’s tweet was a reply to Grady’s comment on the latest news out of Uber: It’s an understandable question. It’s a reasonable question. It’s one that came up back […]