The 10 Top Recommendations for the AI Field in 2017

Let's begin by removing'black box' algorithms from core public agencies Today we released our second annual research report on the state of artificial intelligence. Since last year's report, we've seen early stage AI technologies continue to filter into many everyday systems: from scanning faces at airport security, to recommending to hire someone, to granting someone bail, to denying someone a loan. This report was developed for our annual AI Now Experts' Workshop, which included 100 invited researchers across relevant domains, and it reflects a range of views that were discussed at the event. While AI holds significant promise, we're seeing significant challenges in the rapid push to integrate these systems into high stakes domains. In criminal justice, a team at Propublica, and multiple academics since, have investigated how an algorithm used by courts and law enforcement to predict recidivism in criminal defendants may be introducing significant bias against African Americans.