Regina Dugan: Companies using AI should consider worst-case scenarios

Former DARPA director and leader of secretive skunkworks divisions at Facebook and Google Regina Dugan said companies need to think about how using AI technology can go wrong in order to try to understand the ethical, societal, and legal implications of their work. More specifically, she suggests technologists and engineers working with emergent technologies practice red teaming and blue teaming to imagine best and worst-case scenarios. Doing both allows you to consider how to mitigate negative consequences. Thinking in these terms should take place at the earliest stages in order for changes to have long-term impact. "I think it's impossible to know at any one point in time what all the unintended consequences will be," Dugan said in an interview with Samsung Electronics president and chief strategy officer Young Sohn.