The “AI for Social Good” umbrella “AI for social good”. We increasingly see related initiatives by organisations like Google and Microsoft, conferences, reports and workshops in major “AI” conferences like Neurips, ICRL, and ICML. However, AI for good has become an arbitrary term. Not only AI is a conflated term (for which we can write books about) but … [Read more...] about What Is This “AI For Social Good”?
Ethics & Safety
Dairy farming, solar panels, and diagnosing Parkinson’s disease: what can you do with deep learning?
Many people incorrectly assume that AI is only for an elite few– a handful of Silicon Valley computer science prodigies with monthly budgets larger than most people’s lifetime earnings, turning out abstruse academic papers. This couldn’t be more wrong. Deep learning (a powerful type of AI) can, and is, being used by people with varied backgrounds all over the world. A small … [Read more...] about Dairy farming, solar panels, and diagnosing Parkinson’s disease: what can you do with deep learning?
Five Things That Should Scare You About AI
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai) say that warnings about sentient robots are overblown, but other harms are not getting enough attention. I agree. I am an AI researcher, and I’m worried about some of the societal … [Read more...] about Five Things That Should Scare You About AI
Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics
UPDATE: We've also summarized the top 2019 AI Ethics research papers. 2018 was a breakthrough year for AI ethics. Researchers, practitioners, and ethicists have sounded the alarm for years over potential malicious applications of AI technologies as well as unintended consequences from flawed or biased systems. The increased attention from these warnings have led to a … [Read more...] about Recent Breakthrough Research Papers In AI Ethics