[liberationtech] The Invention of "Ethical AI"

[Yosem Companys]

I missed this piece on how the field of AI ethics was seemingly borne out
of tech giants' lobbying and funding of academia. -- YC

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I learned that the discourse of “ethical AI”... was aligned strategically
with a Silicon Valley effort seeking to avoid legally enforceable
restrictions of controversial technologies. A key group behind this
effort... made policy recommendations in California that contradicted the
conclusions of research I conducted with several lab colleagues, research
that led us to oppose the use of computer algorithms in deciding whether to
jail people pending trial. ... I also watched MIT help the U.S. military
brush aside the moral complexities of drone warfare, hosting a superficial
talk on AI and ethics by Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and
notorious war criminal, and giving input on the U.S. Department of
Defense’s “AI Ethics Principles” for warfare, which embraced “permissibly
biased” algorithms and which avoided using the word “fairness” because the
Pentagon believes “that fights should not be fair.”

https://theintercept.com/2019/12/20/mit-ethical-ai-artificial-intelligence/
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