{"id":140528,"date":"2022-06-13T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-ai-developers-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence-ethics"},"modified":"2022-06-13T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:02:44","slug":"what-ai-developers-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/what-ai-developers-need-to-know-about-artificial-intelligence-ethics","title":{"rendered":"What AI developers need to know about artificial intelligence ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

There may be some very compelling tools and platforms that promise fair and balanced AI, but tools and platforms alone won\u2019t deliver ethical AI solutions, says Reid Blackman<\/a>, who provides avenues to overcome thorny AI ethics issues in his upcoming book, Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent and Respectful AI<\/a> (Harvard Business Review Press). He provides ethics advice to developers working with AI because, in his own words, \u201ctools are efficiently and effectively wielded when their users are equipped with the requisite knowledge, concepts, and training.\u201d To that end, Blackman provides some of the insights development and IT teams need to have to deliver ethical AI.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry about dredging up your Philosophy 101 class notes<\/b><\/p>\n

Considering prevailing ethical and moral theories and applying them to AI work \u201cis a terrible way to build ethically sound AI,\u201d Blackman says. Instead, work collaboratively with teams on practical approaches. \u201cWhat matters for the case at hand is what [your team members] think is an ethical risk that needs to be mitigated and then you can get to work collaboratively identifying and executing on risk-mitigation strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There may be some very compelling tools and platforms that promise fair and balanced AI, but tools and platforms alone won\u2019t deliver ethical AI solutions, says Reid Blackman, who provides avenues to overcome thorny AI ethics issues in his upcoming book, Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent and Respectful AI (Harvard Business [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}