Developing a data ethics framework in the age of AI

Data ethics has exploded into mainstream consciousness in recent weeks, with media coverage of terrorism advertising on YouTube, Cambridge Analytica using Facebook posts to personalise election campaigning, and the endless stream of scandals engulfing taxi-hailing app Uber. The principles and rules are struggling to keep pace with the technological development. A panel of experts assembled by techUK discussed how to ensure principled behaviour. With ethical notions of consent and privacy constantly stretched by the latest advances in tech, a new structure is needed to establish criteria to protect data. "You need standards that give you certainty to innovate," says Royal Statistical Society Executive Director Hetan Shah.