Ethics vs. compliance in AI -- FCW

The Defense Department is focused on implementing its ethics principles for artificial intelligence, especially when it comes to health-related data. But tech experts warn against conflating ethics as just another compliance checklist. Jane Pinelis, who leads test, evaluation, and assessment for the DOD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, said preserving personal health information is one of the JAIC's biggest priorities. "On the health side, one of the biggest things that we're concerned about is the preservation of personal health information," Pinelis said during an Oct. 22 Defense One NextGov event on AI. "On something else, we might be worried about equitability and bias, how do we train these models, what kind of data do we use in training them, and what does that mean about future applications." The JAIC announced progress with its Predictive Health effort on Oct. 21, which aims to reduce the time it takes to diagnose cancer.