"Ethical" is a marketing, manipulative term, applied to exploitive,
deceptive initiatives. While a few who adopt it may have beneficial
intentions, best to be wary of evolution of initial good will
transformed into clothing PR-extolled shenanigans.
There is a long history of ethics, philosophically and practically,
the purpose its invention, used to cosmetize and flummox, heirarchy
simulating equality. If a venture needs ethical glossing, it is
confessing aim to allure and entrap. In that sense, ethical AI, is
bogus, faith-based.
The critique below is properly skeptical.
At 04:33 AM 12/26/2019, you wrote:
On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:06:14PM -0800, Steve Phillips wrote: >
But "AI ethics" is a much more vague notion, and not one I've seen >
connected to meaningful action. That seems to be the point, to take
it on a meta level such that there is no effective action. Yet I see
a pretty simple and straightforward way to make AI ethical: AI must
*never* be fed private, personal or otherwise non-anonymized data of
human beings, not even under the auspices of "consent". Only then
can AI do the useful things like predicting the spread of diseases
without turning human society into a chess game for the owners of
the AI. Those who are allowed to grab the data become the masters of
the planet. Even if you kid yourself that you own your own data.
This principle of uncollectibility of personal data needs to be cast
into regulation, refined and defined in a sane way as it is of
higher importance than democratic constitutions. -- Liberationtech
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