An uber short introduction to AI ethics
What are morals?
What is Ethics?
Normative standards
Framework for expected behaviour within human society
Obligations - to obstain from theft, murder, fraud
Virtues - honesty, compassion, and loyalty
The intent of the use of machines (design)
The decision making of a machine program (machine ethics)
The impact of the technology on society and the environment (business / design)
The unintended outputs (data / algorithms)
In what way do machines participate in ethical questions?
“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”
Jaron Lanier
Business
Design
Data
Algorithmic
Machine Ethics
Robo-ethics
E-personhood
Guides, frameworks, recommendations, practises, toolkits, principles, manifestos, declarations etc...
https://www.ibm.com/watson/assets/duo/pdf/everydayethics.pdf
Machine ethics
What morals should we teach/code into the machines?
No consensus on any universal ethic,
so what do we use?
“If trained with a narrow set of data, an artificial intelligence may learn behaviors that are completely unintended and undesirable."
Nick Bostrom
“Perhaps interacting with an ethical robot might someday even inspire us to behave more ethically ourselves.”
Anderson, Anderson 2012
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is
no education at all.”
Aristotle
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson