What is Ethics?

What are morals?

Normative standards

Obligations - to obstain from theft, murder, fraud.

Virtues - honesty, compassion, and loyalty

They are the study, and implementation of a better society and individual

Laws or Hard rules

But they are logical!

The intent of the use of machines (design)

The decision making of a machine program (machine)

The impact of the technology on society and the environment (business / design)

The ethical capacity and inputs of the system (data / capacity)

Business

Algorithms

Data

Design

Business

Algorithms

Data

Design

Ethics of:

Human

Humans

Machines

Environment

AI

Some machine learning using neuronetwork techniques

Backpropagation

NEAT

GANS

Automata

Decision Trees

Genetic algorithms

In what way do machines participate in ethical questions?

Why should we care?

The intent of

the use of machines

“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”

Jaron Lanier

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

Samuel Johnson

“Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient. It’s meant to completely obviate them.”

Rise of the Robots

“I believe that we still have a role to play"

Robots and the Future of Work,
Leslie P. Willcocks, Mary C. Lacity

The ethical decision making of machine programs

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

Data ethics

Data Bias

Data miss-use

Facebook / cambridge analytica

The Ethical impact of technology on the Environmental

Business of business in capitalism is making money at any cost

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is
no education at all.”

Aristotle

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay

Thank you