It was a move that capped a dramatic period in Hanna's professional life. In late 2020, her manager, Timnit Gebru, had been fired from her position as the co-lead of the Ethical AI team after she wrote a paper questioning the ethics of large language models (including Google's). A few months later, Hanna's next manager, Meg Mitchell, was also shown the door. DAIR, which was founded by Gebru in late 2021 and is funded by various philanthropies, aims to challenge the existing understanding of AI through a community-focused, bottom-up approach to research. The group works remotely and includes teams in Berlin and South Africa.

AI, the buzz word known as Artificial Intelligence, in practice can be explained as Augmented Intelligence; a tool that has been in development since 1950s to extend human capabilities to complete tasks no human or machine could accomplish on their own. The world has already shifted towards building an AI integrated future and it's our responsibility to ensure it's heading in the right direction. "People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws; mathematics cuts straight through them" (Moneyball, 2011) Despite its immense potential, some major barriers still exist for AI hindering its progress. Biased behavior uncovered in current AI models has made us question if AI is the right way forward. To avoid such unfavourable outcomes and consequences, it is imperative to regulate the implementation of AI by an ethical framework assuring the key attributes; Transparency, Accountability, Privacy and Lack of Bias.

The philosophy of Artificial Intelligence is a riddle so confounding that it is unclear where, and how, one would even address the questions plaguing its era. Is AI a revolution or a war? Nowadays, A.I can write and analyse books, beat humans at about every game conceivable, make movies, compose classical songs and help magicians perform better tricks. Beyond the arts, it also has the potential to encourage better decision-making, make medical diagnoses, and even solve some of humanity's most pressing challenges. It's intertwining with criminal justice, education, retail, recruiting, healthcare, banking, farming, defense… These advances alone could lead many to end the conversation there and then, with overwhelming evidence that the benefits of AI reach far and wide within society, outweighing the risks associated with such a technology.

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AI is facing several critical challenges. Not only does it need huge amounts of data to deliver accurate results, but it also needs to be able to ensure that data isn't biased, and it needs to comply with increasingly restrictive data privacy regulations. We have seen several solutions proposed over the last couple of years to address these challenges -- including various tools designed to identify and reduce bias, tools that anonymize user data, and programs to ensure that data is only collected with user consent. But each of these solutions is facing challenges of its own. Now we're seeing a new industry emerge that promises to be a saving grace: synthetic data.

With good reason, the general public has become increasingly wary about the sudden growth in artificial intelligence software, but another high-growth area of software--blockchain--could solve many of the issues holding back modern A.I. development and adoption. As a community, we must first acknowledge that real-world artificial intelligence has suffered from some rather spectacular public failures of late. Microsoft, one of the most technically advanced companies on the planet, saw its Tay A.I. chatbot turn racist almost immediately after its release in March of 2016. Meanwhile, Tesla recently admitted that a January 2018 crash was caused because its autopilot A.I. technology couldn't recognize a parked fire truck. In the two years between the Tay incident and the Tesla fire truck crash, A.I. has been required to accomplish more dangerous and complex work, without having shed its capacity for serious, unexpected failure.