Ben Byford
AI ethics | freelance web and games designer
Holistic AI Ethics by Ben Byford
We seek to promote thoughtful collaboration and open dialogue about the potential subtle and salient influences of AI on people and society.
Good AI offers great potential for promoting the public good for example in the realms of education, housing, public health and sustainability
There are concerns about algorithms’ opacity the code of algorithms may be unviewable in systems that are proprietary or outsourced, even if viewable the code may be essentially uncheckable, if it’s highly complex where the code continuously changes based on live data or where the use of neural networks means that there is no single ‘point of decision making’ to view before data may go through...
Does your company communicate clearly, honestly and directly about any potential risks of the product or service you are providing what does it communicate?
Holistic AI Ethics by Ben Byford
We seek to promote thoughtful collaboration and open dialogue about the potential subtle and salient influences of AI on people and society.
Good AI offers great potential for promoting the public good for example in the realms of education, housing, public health and sustainability
There are concerns about algorithms’ opacity the code of algorithms may be unviewable in systems that are proprietary or outsourced, even if viewable the code may be essentially uncheckable, if it’s highly complex where the code continuously changes based on live data or where the use of neural networks means that there is no single ‘point of decision making’ to view before data may go through...
Does your company communicate clearly, honestly and directly about any potential risks of the product or service you are providing what does it communicate?
Ethics
AI ethics
Holistic AI ethics
AI Ethical guidelines
AI AI Ethical guidelines
Questions
Ethics
Ethical ≠ Good
Ethical ≠ Good
Good is not good enough
It lacks rationality, specificity, replicability
Why AI Ethics?
“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”
Jaron Lanier
"…ethics must become a central piece for any individual or organisations developing AI."
DigitalCatapult
Machine Intelligence Garage Ethics Committee
chaired by Luciano Floridi
Why Holistic AI ethics?
Ethical
frameworks, guidelines, manifestos, declarations, principles practises, questions, recommendations, toolkits...
Opinions, doctrine, tenets, obligations, laws
Good, meh, common, miss ng
The good
- Avoid creating or reinforcing unfair bias
- Only collect what is needed
- Monitor after release of systems its effectiveness but also its impact on societies
- Do some of the benefits of your solution include democratising AI knowledge?
- Can you give others access to your data and models to help charities and NGOs?
- Build ethical thinking into organisation culture
The good
IBM - everyday ethics
https://www.ibm.com/watson/assets/duo/pdf/everydayethics.pdf
Digital catapult - machine intelligence garage
The common
- Transparency of where an algorithm is being deployed
- Diverse teams
- Data consent
The meh
- User’s should be in control of their data - GDPR
- Respect human rights
- Dedicated insurance
- Take action licenses
The miss ng
- Acceptance and handling of unintended Consequences
- Specifics of the technology
- Specifics of a generalised ethically framework based on logical reasoning in relation to the technology
- No recommendations for legislation
AI corpus
We seek to promote thoughtful collaboration and open dialogue about the potential subtle and salient influences of AI on people and society.
Good AI offers great potential for promoting the public good for example in the realms of education, housing, public health and sustainability
There are concerns about algorithms’ opacity the code of algorithms may be unviewable in systems that are proprietary or outsourced, even if viewable the code may be essentially uncheckable, if it’s highly complex where the code continuously changes based on live data or where the use of neural networks means that there is no single ‘point of decision making’ to view before data may go through...
Does your company communicate clearly, honestly and directly about any potential risks of the product or service you are providing what does it communicate?
“Perhaps interacting with an ethical robot might someday even inspire us to behave more ethically ourselves.”
Anderson, Anderson 2012
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson
"I'm just a designer,
a developer,
a researcher"
Extra credits
NOTES
- Finding bias isn't the same as acting on it
- “its just not good enough to publish your ethics principles” - Projects by IF
- Users - humanise your users by calling them people
- “Be worthy of trust” - sounds virtuous, but how?
- Badges for ethical & technical understandings
- Fight against abstraction
- ...TBA
Holistic AI Ethics
By Ben Byford
Holistic AI Ethics
Presented at Bristech 2018
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