AI bias: Avoiding the bad, the biased and the unethical - Verdict

Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly emerged as the defining technology of our society. Gartner forecasts that by 2020, AI will be a top-five investment priority for more than 30% of CIOs. UK tech companies have secured £1 billion deal investment from the UK government which will support their research and development. Though the discussion of adopting AI is still very compelling for businesses and consumers alike, there are still legitimate concerns, as raised by The Guardian's Inequality Project: "When the data we feed the machines reflects the history of our own unequal society, we are in effect asking the program to learn our own biases." It has, therefore, become paramount that CIOs know some uses of AI that could cause problems – the bad, the biased and the unethical – and what they can do to make sure their business remains on the right side.