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]> 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/ > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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