social licence
Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Need a Social Licence?
According to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), companies have no option but to acquire a social license for AI. When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, she was writing about technology. Dr. Victor Frankenstein created a man who becomes a monster – leaping over his creator's expectations and terrifying the townspeople until his creator shuts him down. One wonders, if Frankenstein had been given the right circumstances, would the story have ended in triumph? Reading Boston Consulting Group's article "Why AI Needs a Social License" reminded me of Shelley's classic.