{"id":95293,"date":"2019-08-26T01:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/meet-the-researchers-fighting-to-make-sure-artificial-intelligence-is-a-force-for-good"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:22:28","slug":"meet-the-researchers-fighting-to-make-sure-artificial-intelligence-is-a-force-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/meet-the-researchers-fighting-to-make-sure-artificial-intelligence-is-a-force-for-good","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Researchers Fighting to Make Sure Artificial Intelligence Is a Force for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But in many ways, the field of AI ethics remains limited. Researchers say they are blocked from investigating many systems thanks to trade secrecy protections and laws like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). As interpreted by the courts, that law criminalizes breaking a website or platform\u2019s terms of service, an often necessary step for researchers trying to audit online AI systems for unfair biases.<\/p>\n

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Whittaker acknowledges the potential for the AI ethics movement to be co-opted. But as someone who has fought for accountability from within Silicon Valley and outside it, Whittaker says she has seen the tech world begin to undergo a deep transformation in recent years. \u201cYou have thousands and thousands of workers across the industry who are recognizing the stakes of their work,\u201d Whittaker explains. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to be complicit in building things that do harm. We don\u2019t want to be complicit in building things that benefit only a few and extract more and more from the many.\u201d<\/p>\n

It may be too soon to tell if that new consciousness will precipitate real systemic change. But facing academic, regulatory and internal scrutiny, it is at least safe to say that the industry won\u2019t be going back to the adolescent, devil-may-care days of \u201cmove fast and break things\u201d anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a significant shift and it can\u2019t be understated,\u201d says Whittaker. \u201cThe cat is out of the box, and it\u2019s not going back in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But in many ways, the field of AI ethics remains limited. Researchers say they are blocked from investigating many systems thanks to trade secrecy protections and laws like the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). As interpreted by the courts, that law criminalizes breaking a website or platform\u2019s terms of service, an often necessary step [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95293","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}