[liberationtech] The Invention of "Ethical AI"

[Paola Di Maio]

I have been working on AI Ethics participated in some institutional efforts
(like IEEE)
and I can confirm that all the efforts I participated in were piloted and
superficial, designed to create
an impression that ethics is a concern, but avoiding and failing totally to
address it
I felt I was going mad for a while
PDM

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 5:57 AM Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

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