Ethics of AI

Published on Jul 07, 2019

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Ethics of AI

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1. Benefit humanity

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2. Protect privacy & security

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3. Enhance our autonomy

4. just and fair

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5. understandable

Transparent & Accountable

What is 'ethical AI'?

What is ethics?

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Philosophy is the study of:
Metaphysics
Epistemology &
Ethics

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Metaphysics

What is there?

Epistemology

How do we know what there is?

ethics

What ought we do, given what is, and what might be?

WHAT ARE THE TOOLS OF PHILOSOPHY?

imagination

suppose, invent, play

religion

Stipulate, order, guide

Science

hypothesise, observe, experiment, measure, VALIDATE/disprove
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perception

see, observe, measure, explain
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thinking

reason, pray, hypothesise, consider
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cognitive models

how do we think?
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ethics

What ought we do, given what is, and what might be?

Obey rules

Deontology
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REduce Most harms

Consequentialism

Build character

Virtue ethics
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Obedience

DUTy
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Look after others

Ethics of Care

ATTUNEMENT

Desire to be desireless
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What is AI?

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What is intelligence?

Most people define 'intelligence' in their own image

we use the word 'intelligence' to describe human abilities to acquire useful knowledge, solve consequential problems using some combination of logic, intuition, creativity, experience, and wisdom

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intelligent' people are good at learning, retaining knowledge and adapting

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The term 'artificial intelligence' was coined by John McCarthy (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 1956

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Make machines use language

form abstractions and concepts

solve the kinds of problems now reserved for humans

improve themselves

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DeepBlue v.s. Kasparov (1997)

IBM WATSON VS. JEOPARDY (2011)

Lee Se-Dol vs. AlphaGo

AlphaZero gets the rules to a game and learns by itself

Deepmind Alphastar beat human players (2019)

AI art created using GANs (generative adversarial networks):

- A human chose the data set
- A human designed the network
- A human trained the network
- A human curated the resulting outputs

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AI aims to be faster & cleverer than humans

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Current AI is excellent at learning using a set of rules (e.g. games), processing speed and retaining knowledge

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AI IS NOT 'INTELLIGENT'

IN MANY OF THE WAYS THAT HUMANS ARE
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Even worse, AI adopts and magnifies human bias & prejudice; amplifying power and disproportionately disadvantaging already disempowered & marginalised peoples

AI functions smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force

Ethical AI

  • Benefit humanity
  • Protect privacy & security
  • Enhance our autonomy
  • Just & fair
  • Understandable (transparent & accountable
See https://tech.newstatesman.com/policy/ai-ethics-framework

Professor Luciano Floridi is OII Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford, Chair of the Data Ethics Group of The Alan Turing Institute, member of the High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Artificial Intelligence of the European Commission and member of the UK’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.

Tim, Lord Clement-Jones is the former Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on AI and Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AI.
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Design

user-led, value-based, iterative

context

specific, relevant, targetted
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