Democratization Of AI Is Said To Be Essential For AI Ethics But The Devil Is In The Details, Including The Case Of AI-Based Self-Driving Cars

A big push is underway to democratize AI, though we need to figure out what this actually means and ... [ ] what it foretells. That phrasing is a well-intended respectful appropriation from Abraham Lincoln's famous 1863 Gettysburg Address in which he memorably stated that our democracy proffers a new birth of freedom entwining an erstwhile government of the people, by the people, and for the people. This same notion of the power of people was also captured in some years earlier speech by Senator Daniel Webster in 1830 in which he exhorted that our government was made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. You could readily assert that those keystone elements are a bedrock of democracy and democratization. The reason that I've leveraged such a famed saying is it seemingly can be purposely applied to Artificial Intelligence. You see, there is a great deal of vocal discussion these days about the democratization of AI. In brief, there is a heartfelt belief that we need to make sure that pretty much anybody at all can craft and deploy AI systems. The ardent view is that we are presently mired in having only techie-focused specialists that can put AI into use. A relatively narrow and devoted clique of AI experts and high-tech entities are dominating which AI systems we are getting and how those AI systems are being devised, the argument goes. We, the people, cannot allow ourselves to become controlled and overseen by a seeming handful of AI gurus. I think you can probably see how there is a claimed analogous pattern between the notion of how people are governed overall and how AI is being fostered upon the world.