The importance of having accountability in AI ethics

AI ethics expert Joanna J Bryson spoke to Siliconrepublic.com about the challenges of regulating AI and why more work needs to be done. As AI becomes a bigger part of society, the ethics around the technology require more discussion, with everything from privacy and discrimination to human safety needing consideration. There have been several examples in recent years highlighting ethical problems with AI, including an MIT image library to train AI that contained racist and misogynistic terms and the controversial credit score system in China. In recent years, the EU has made conscious steps towards addressing some of these issues, laying the groundwork for proper regulation for the technology. Its most recent proposals revealed plans to classify different AI applications depending on their risks.