Businesses, policymakers 'misaligned' on what ethical AI really means

From autonomous vehicles to virtual assistants, artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly present in our daily lives, and yet we are really just at the beginning of the curve. A powerful, transformative technology though it is, dealing with vast amounts of data, applications are already triggering unease in the public and the continued adoption of the game-changing technology must be balanced with heightened scrutiny towards policy, regulation, and ethics. The need for more stringent oversight is demonstrated by the increasing reliance we place on this technology in our daily lives -- in the case of driverless cars, we'd be placing our lives in the hands of AI. But it's also demonstrated in use by businesses and organizations. In the case of law enforcement, Flaws, or incompleteness in the data used by facial recognition systems in law enforcement, for example, can lead to racial profiling or misidentification of suspects, or add to the sense of an invasive surveillance culture at best.