{"id":13535,"date":"2017-05-09T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=13535"},"modified":"2017-05-09T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T14:51:03","slug":"artificial-intelligence-and-ethics-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/artificial-intelligence-and-ethics-what-you-need-to-know.html","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence and Ethics &#8212; What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have, in a very short time, become astonishingly good at helping companies see, and react to, patterns in data they would otherwise have missed. More and more, however, these new patterns carry difficult ethical choices.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re increasingly giving AI power over life-changing decisions.AI and ethics is less a technological issue than as a societal one. We have to ensure that organizations implementing AI are aware of the dangers and put mechanisms in place to avoid potential disasters.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cowp9aETQMQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To find out what your organization can\u00a0do, see\u00a0my new Digitalist Magazine article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/digital-economy\/digital-futures\/2017\/05\/02\/ai-and-ethics-we-will-live-what-machines-learn-05046008\">AI And Ethics: We Will Live What Machines Learn<\/a>, co-written with\u00a0Dan Wellers, Global Lead of Digital Futures at SAP.<\/p>\n<p>I believe these messages need to be more widely communicated &#8212; please\u00a0consider downloading\u00a0the executive brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-research\/teaching-machines-right-from-wrong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teaching Machines Right from Wrong<\/a>\u00a0and sharing it inside your organization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalistmag.com\/executive-research\/teaching-machines-right-from-wrong\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/digitalist-teaching-machines-right-from-wrong.png?resize=608%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/digitalist-teaching-machines-right-from-wrong.png?resize=608%2C382&amp;ssl=1 608w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/digitalist-teaching-machines-right-from-wrong.png?resize=768%2C483&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/digitalist-teaching-machines-right-from-wrong.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re increasingly giving AI power over life-changing decisions. We have to ensure that there are mechanisms in place to avoid potential disasters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1177,100,1176,382,1245,454],"class_list":["post-13535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-practice","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-digital","tag-digitalethics","tag-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ai-and-ethics-cover-image.jpg?fit=608%2C307&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-3wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}