I'm happily participating in the ethics of AI aspects affiliated with
the The Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software
Program–Humanities and Society
<https://wasp-hs.org/>
As the Intercept article notes, some of the AI/ethics work in humanities
and social sciences is more independent of and nuanced than the MIT /
Google, etc.-driven approaches. One can be happy and encouraged about
that - but those larger forces are despicable and obviously difficult to
challenge or counter.
- charles
On 24/12/2019 00:39, Paola Di Maio wrote:
I have been working on AI Ethics participated in some institutional
efforts (like IEEE)
and I can confirm that all the efforts I participated in were piloted
and superficial, designed to create
an impression that ethics is a concern, but avoiding and failing totally
to address it
I felt I was going mad for a while
PDM
On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 5:57 AM Yosem Companys <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I missed this piece on how the field of AI ethics was seemingly
borne out of tech giants' lobbying and funding of academia. -- YC
****
I learned that the discourse of “ethical AI”... was aligned
strategically with a Silicon Valley effort seeking to avoid legally
enforceable restrictions of controversial technologies. A key group
behind this effort... made policy recommendations in California that
contradicted the conclusions of research I conducted with several
lab colleagues, research that led us to oppose the use of computer
algorithms in deciding whether to jail people pending trial. ... I
also watched MIT help the U.S. military brush aside the moral
complexities of drone warfare, hosting a superficial talk on AI and
ethics by Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and
notorious war criminal, and giving input on the U.S. Department of
Defense’s “AI Ethics Principles” for warfare, which embraced
“permissibly biased” algorithms and which avoided using the word
“fairness” because the Pentagon believes “that fights should not be
fair.”
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/
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