[liberationtech] The Invention of "Ethical AI"

[L Jean Camp]

John, your "point" is ahistorical to the point of being silly. Disinterest
does not justify derailing.

Steve,
In terms of the HUD rule. It is an actual rule-making addressing the role
of AI and the consequent responsibility for harm. The anonymity proposal
holds real promise but .... would it work?  Could the use anonymous data
would help here because of the deep, profound, and thus highly correlated
and consistently significant role, reality of race and wealth in the US.

The HUD proposal holds any entity that causes harm to be protected from any
risk-based or harm-based remedies regardless of the magnitude of the harm.
That is highly unusual in any domain. Here is a pointer to a description of
how risk-based versus harm-based regulations have applied in security and
privacy. (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2242474 low
math version http://www.ljean.com/files/eCrime2015CameraReady.pdf).

I think the same approach could be used in considering ethical AI -- are
there areas where the risk are well understood? I do not know of any. So
making entities judgement-proof for use of anonymous data when we do not
understand the implications is not something I would agree with.

I am thinking of another area where anonymity would not help. For example,
in the use of sensing and responding for collision avoidance the CAMP
standard (coincidence of course) implements a PKI where the keys rapidly
rotate for privacy. Does this create privacy? I think not, I think a .
better protocol is superior to rotating keys. Does this create an ability
of any vehicle under the system to use legitimate keys to implement a
traffic-stopping sybil attack without breaking any crypto, just code abuse?
That is very implementation specific. And AI is deeply embedded into the
decisions of the system. I picked this example because automobiles is an
area that is highly regulated, and the physical risks are very well
understood. But add crypto and AI, then it can break in unexpected ways.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this second situation.  Thank you.

On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 1:05 PM John Young <jya at pipeline.com> wrote:

> "Ethical" is a marketing, manipulative term, applied to exploitive,
> deceptive initiatives. While a few who adopt it may have beneficial
> intentions, best to be wary of evolution of initial good will
> transformed into clothing PR-extolled shenanigans.
>
> There is a long history of ethics, philosophically and practically,
> the purpose its invention, used to cosmetize and flummox, heirarchy
> simulating equality. If a venture needs ethical glossing, it is
> confessing aim to allure and entrap. In that sense, ethical AI, is
> bogus, faith-based.
>
> The critique below is properly skeptical.
>
> At 04:33 AM 12/26/2019, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 06:06:14PM -0800, Steve Phillips wrote: >
> >But "AI ethics" is a much more vague notion, and not one I've seen >
> >connected to meaningful action. That seems to be the point, to take
> >it on a meta level such that there is no effective action. Yet I see
> >a pretty simple and straightforward way to make AI ethical: AI must
> >*never* be fed private, personal or otherwise non-anonymized data of
> >human beings, not even under the auspices of "consent". Only then
> >can AI do the useful things like predicting the spread of diseases
> >without turning human society into a chess game for the owners of
> >the AI. Those who are allowed to grab the data become the masters of
> >the planet. Even if you kid yourself that you own your own data.
> >This principle of uncollectibility of personal data needs to be cast
> >into regulation, refined and defined in a sane way as it is of
> >higher importance than democratic constitutions. -- Liberationtech
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