Unleashing The Power Of A Diverse Team To Build More Ethical AI Technologies

In a recent article, WIRED senior writer Tom Simonite talked to Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI, to explore the ethical issues facing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. "We're relying on systems that don't have the sort of safety rails you would expect for something so influential in everyday life," notes Crawford. "There are tools actually causing harm that are completely unregulated." When people that aren't in the industry hear me say that artificial intelligence and machine learning can become forces for positive change in society, they ask me to explain why these technologies have been mired in controversy for more than a decade. And why ethical issues seem to be getting worse versus getting better. Indeed, in recent years several high-profile cases of ML technologies causing harm to marginalized parts of society have captured headlines.