Why AI is still waiting for its ethics transplant
There's no lack of reports on the ethics of artificial intelligence. But most of them are lightweight-full of platitudes about "public-private partnerships" and bromides about putting people first.
From Wired Nov 1,2017
Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient
The Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (GD-IQ) is a ground breaking software tool developed by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary~Rs University to analyze audio and video media content.
Artificial intelligence: How to avoid racist algorithms
From BBC News April 16, 2017
"...many of the algorithms that make decisions about our lives - from what we see on the internet to how likely we are to become victims or instigators of crime - are trained on data sets that do not include a diverse range of people."
Suresh Venkatasubramanian states, "...bias, or skew, in decision-making will shift from things we recognise as human prejudice to things we no longer recognise and therefore cannot detect - because we will take the decision-making for granted."
Suresh Venkatasubramanian offers a number solutions:
*better and more diverse data sets with which to train the algorithm
*sharing best practice among software vendor
*building algorithms which explain their decision making
The Algorithmic Justice League (AJL) was launched by Joy Buolamwini, a postgraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to work to end algorithmic bias.
April 16,2017
Whatever happened to the DeepMind AI ethics board Google promised?
When the search giant bought the artificial intelligence company, part of the deal was setting up an ethics board. Three years on, where is it? Thursday 26 January 2017