Council Post: AI Ethics Really Come Down To Security

It's expected that there will be 75 billion smart connected devices in our homes and offices by 2025, and many of them will have added capacity to sense, process and make decisions without first checking with the cloud -- or with us. If we're going to rely on them to take more active and responsible roles in our lives, we must be able to trust that they're not only ethical but that the AI and the machine learning that underpins them operate safely and securely. Already, the U.S., EU and other countries have started working on laws and regulations focused on the impact of AI on end users. A number of tech companies and other organizations (including the Vatican) are also collaborating to develop ethical codes of conduct for AI built upon the key principles, which include privacy, transparency and fairness. However, the process required to make ethical AI safe and secure requires more than the coding of virtuous machines.