The word “trust” comes up continually in my work when we talk about values. It anchors our culture. For us and many other companies, trust has become a competitive advantage. As businesses race to adopt artificial intelligence (AI), their ability to use…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing new technology and changes to the world every day. Thanks to ‘AI Readiness.’ People are willing to take technological changes as they adapt to a society where intelligence and robotics do most of the job. But the…
Artificial intelligence is an extremely powerful technology that’s not going anywhere, in fact the only way for artificial intelligence is up into unimaginable territory, hopefully that territory is filled with rainbows and unicorns metaphorically speaking but the only way we can even…
Throughout history, several tech inventions had triggered debate regarding the ethics of its implementation –or even the principle behind its existence. Some of us may have been fortunate to witness the debacle caused by the successful reproductive clone of Dolly the sheep decades…
Let’s face it: When a company develops artificial intelligence (AI) that can offer us a medical diagnosis, care for our elderly grandparents or autonomously drive a vehicle, ethics aren’t the flashiest elements to focus on. It’s tempting for companies to get caught…
Who should be on the ethics board of a tech company that’s in the business of artificial intelligence (A.I.)? Given the attention to the devastating failure of Google’s proposed Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) earlier this year, which was announced and then canceled within a…
Investing with a conscience just got a whole lot easier: AI has entered the scene. As it is, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing grew to $30 trillion in 2018, and looks to reach a staggering $50 trillion over the next two decades….
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has launched a global online consultation on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), which will be used by the organisation’s international group of AI experts to help draft a framework governing how the…
Abstract Decision-making on numerous aspects of our daily lives is being outsourced to machine-learning (ML) algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), motivated by speed and efficiency in the decision process. ML approaches—one of the typologies of algorithms underpinning artificial intelligence—are typically developed as…
In the past 12 months, artificial intelligence has become headline news, and not always for the right reasons. We’ve heard stories of sexist AI hiring algorithms, racist face detection algorithms, and AIs using your private social media data to influence elections. Embarrassing AI failures such…
