ethics of artificial intelligence, said Sean Captain
in FastCompany.com. Amazon, Google,
Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft have formed
a nonprofit called the Partnership on AI “to
keep a collective eye on how AI is developed
and used.” The partnership will fund and
conduct research with academics, user group
advocates, and industry experts, with topics
including ethics, fairness, and privacy. Aside
from addressing fears of “futuristic killer
robots,” the partnership will study proble ms
with AI that could already have real-world
effects, such as hiring software that develops
an inadvertent bias against women or ethnic
groups, because it makes decisions based on
the attributes of current employees and so ends
up recommending “only white men.”
