Week 3

Lesson 4

Introduction to ethics in AI:

AI can be ethical when:

1. Everyone is educated about it

2. Business is transparent

3. Implements controls for bias

4. AI must be explainable and inclusive

Group Research: Ethics and AI

Your Task

1. Using online search engines, in your groups, research information about ethics and AI
and provide detailed examples of the following:

2. The ways in which businesses implement good ethics.

3. An example of where a company failed to implement good ethics and a reflection on the
consequences.

4. An ethical dilemma concerning AI-produced decisions.

5. After compiling your research, create a visually pleasing slideshow (in PowerPoint) of 5-
8 slides, evidencing all of your findings. Make it informative, conclusive and interesting!

6. Your slide presentation must be produced with an accompanying voiceover and posted
to the forum below.

Continue lesson 4:

Ethics and its Implications

Reading

Great promise but potential for peril

  Companies developing and using AI must make sure that machines must not be encoded with
structural biases.
 The jobs that will stay are jobs that requires human interaction, empathy and judgement.

AI presents three major areas of ethical concern for society:

1.Privacy and surveillance, bias and discrimination, and perhaps the deepest, most difficult
philosophical question of the era, the role of human judgment.

Exercise One:

Following on from the previous article, I’d now like you to share your thoughts with your cohorts.

Your Task

1. First, describe your reactions to, or thoughts about, the ethical concerns covered in the
reading.

2. Critically reflect on, and formulate a response to, the role of judgment highlighted in the
following sentence from the article: “AI presents three major areas of ethical concern for society:
privacy and surveillance, bias and discrimination, and perhaps the deepest, most difficult philosophical
question of the era, the role of human judgment”

3. Following this, identify a peer’s post expressing a contrasting opinion to your own, and
comment further on how you disagree, engaging in constructive and healthy debate. Alternatively,
comment on how your understanding has been enriched, or add further comments.

 AI do discriminate if fed up with biased dataset

 simply AI to succeed needs to include those people that have been historically excluded.
 The output is based on quality of data used to proceed in the automated process. As per privacy
concern sure more development needs more security and safeguards to protect human privacy
concerns. Hackers may use also AI. So AI security tools need to be well-trained to overcome any
security challenge.
 AI uses big data sets the AI model can be exploited.AI can merge data from different resources
and cause false predictions.AI needs to have high security level in order to prevent any malicious
input and unverified data.
 Human judgement is necessary to arrive for true AI. There need to be a way to codify human
judgement . But the big dilemma is who can define what is human judgment? Is judgment
based on human consciousness? Can machines learn consciousness and practice it? What
human judgment constitutes?
 In my opinion AI can be assisting for decision taking. But cannot make decisions at lead for now.
We need to trust the system, we need to treat biases in the datasets before allowing this
technology to take over what characterizes us as human which is resembled by consciousness
and its big secret.