Establish AI Governance, Not Best Intentions, to Keep Companies Honest - InformationWeek

IBM, Microsoft and Amazon all recently announced they are either halting or pausing facial recognition technology initiatives. IBM even launched the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab, "a'convening sandbox' for affiliated scholars and industry leaders to explore and evaluate ethical frameworks and ideas." In my view, the governance that will yield ethical artificial intelligence (AI) -- specifically, unbiased decisioning based on AI -- won't spring from an academic sandbox. AI governance is a board-level issue. Boards of directors should care about AI governance because AI technology makes decisions that profoundly affect everyone.