Responsible AI and Government: High Time to Open Discussions?

Recently, Gartner released a series of Predicts 2021 research reports, including one that highlights the serious, wide-reaching ethical and social problems it predicts artificial intelligence (AI) to cause in the next several years. The race to digital transformation and abundance of data has coerced companies to invest in artificial intelligence technologies. And with that, the concept of leveraging responsible AI took central stage in discussions between government, enterprises and other tech purists and critics. A quick search trends shows that the words like "Ethical AI", and "Responsible AI" have gained popularity in the past five years. But what is the reason behind it? Currently, presence of bias in training data for artificial intelligence models and lack of transparency (black box) threaten the possibility of using AI for good.