AI cannot help humanity if it cannot help an individual: UK report

Whatever the ultimate impact may be of a report by UK experts in algorithmic bias, the document already has succeeded where many analyst reports have failed. The new report, on bias in algorithmic decision making, comes from the government-funded Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. It takes the position that AI decision making must be ethical to be successful, and AI ethics must be viewed as impacting individual people -- because it does. Thinking about AI ethics in terms of industries, regions, demographics and data sets is an easy out. It lets everyone involved spread harms across faceless multitudes.