How Can We Make Artificial Intelligence Ethical?

Last week, we completed an eye-opening activity in one of my introductory graduate school courses. For some context, the class is designed to provide an introduction to different research paradigms within human-computer interaction (HCI) and related fields. We spent the first half of the quarter discussing the high-level elements of quality research and have recently been discussing methods to gauge the ethics and trustworthiness of scholarly research. For the activity, our professor had each of us analyze a research paper of choice and write a short 300-word snippet discussing the ethical issues either directly present in or implied from the research. We then compiled all of our articles together into a little "virtual magazine" of sorts, usable as a quick future reference when reading scholarly papers. The end result was fascinating, in particular because we were able to find a number of ethical concerns still present in actual, published research.