The U.S. intelligence community (IC) on Thursday rolled out an "ethics guide" and framework for how intelligence agencies can responsibly develop and use artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Among the key ethical requirements were shoring up security, respecting human dignity through complying with existing civil rights and privacy laws, rooting out bias to ensure AI use is "objective and equitable," and ensuring human judgement is incorporated into AI development and use. The IC wrote in the framework, which digs into the details of the ethics guide, that it was intended to ensure that use of AI technologies matches "the Intelligence Community's unique mission purposes, authorities, and responsibilities for collecting and using data and AI outputs." "The IC leads in developing and using technology crucial to our national security mission, and we cannot do so without recognizing and acting on its ethical implications," Director of National Intelligence John RatcliffeJohn Lee RatcliffeRubio says congressional oversight of intelligence faces'historic crisis' following DNI announcement Warner calls Intelligence chief's decision to scale down congressional election security briefings'outrageous' Pelosi, Schiff pan director of national intelligence for canceling election security briefings MORE said in a statement Thursday. "These principles and their accompanying framework will help guide our mission leads and data scientists as they implement technology to solve intelligence problems."

In 2018, Silicon Valley, like Hamlet's engineer, was hoist with its own petard. Citizens were panicking about data privacy, researchers were sounding alarms about artificial intelligence, and even industry stakeholders rebelled against app addiction. Policymakers, meanwhile, seemed to take a renewed interest in breaking up big tech, as a string of congressional hearings put CEOs in the hot seat over the products they made. Everywhere, techies were grasping for answers to the unintended consequences of their own creations. So the Omidyar Network--a "philanthropic investment firm" created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar--set out to provide them.

Coined the fourth industrial revolution, the advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning brings interesting discussion to the table. Because AI is so comprehensive and covers several industries, we find ourselves asking obscure questions such as "Do we need to legalize predictive AI policing?" With these questions arising, the key one that remains unanswered surrounds ethics. How do we ensure that AI technologies are ethically designed? To answer this question, there are essentially four aspects that dictate the result: the dilemma, the impact, adoption, and institutionalization.

Coined the fourth industrial revolution, the advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning brings interesting discussion to the table. Because AI is so comprehensive and covers several industries, we find ourselves asking obscure questions such as "Do we need to legalize predictive AI policing?" With these questions arising, the key one that remains unanswered surrounds ethics. How do we ensure that AI technologies are ethically designed? To answer this question, there are essentially four aspects that dictate the result: the dilemma, the impact, adoption, and institutionalization.