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Why We Need Ethical AI: 5 Initiatives to Ensure Ethics in AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a profound impact on business and society. Applied AI and machine learning (ML) are creating safer workplaces, more accurate health diagnoses and better access to information for global citizens. The Fourth Industrial Revolution will represent a new era of partnership between humans and AI, with potentially positive global impact. AI advancements can help society solve problems of income inequality and food insecurity to create a more “inclusive, human-centred future” according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
There is nearly limitless potential to AI innovation, which is both positive and frightening. Experts like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking have expressed clear concerns about the need for AI ethics and risk assessment. AI is, ultimately, an advanced tool for computation and analysis. It’s susceptible to errors and bias when it’s developed with malicious intent or trained with adversarial data inputs. AI has enormous potential to be weaponised in ways which threaten public safety, security, and quality of life, which is why AI ethics is so important.
Ethical AI isn’t just a discussion of far-off possibilities, like superhuman intelligence or a robot uprising. AI ethics issues such as bias and deception have already started to have an impact on businesses…
