Giving Compass' Take:

• As computer science and AI continues to be included in classroom instruction, a code of ethics needs to be established to help the industry grow in a positive and regulated direction. 

•  How can thought leaders in AI and coding maintain accountability and ethical practice in the computer science field? 

• Read more about the importance of ethical guidelines and regulation in AI.

The first industrial revolution, powered by steam, launched mass production. The second revolution added electricity to everything. The third added computing power. This new revolution, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is adding cognitive capabilities to everything—and it’s a game changer.

Code that learns is both powerful and dangerous. It threatens the basic rules of markets and civic life. AI requires a new technical and civic infrastructure, a new way to conduct business, a new way to be together in community.

Compared to prior revolutions, this one is occurring at an exponential speed and while impacts are ubiquitous, control is concentrated. AI is a centralizing force. It plows through monster data sets in seconds aggregating benefits and wealth at an unprecedented speed.

The Institute created a visual map of interdisciplinary issues to be addressed:

  • Validation: ensuring that the right system specification is provided for the core of the agent given stakeholders’ goals for the system.
  • Security: applying cybersecurity paradigms and techniques to AI-specific challenges.
  • Control: structural methods for operators to maintain control over advanced agents.
  • Foundations: foundational mathematical or philosophical problems that have bearing on multiple facets of safety
  • Verification: techniques that help prove a system was implemented correctly given a formal specification
  • Ethics: effort to understand what we ought to do and what counts as moral or good.
  • Governance: the norms and values held by society, which are structured through various formal and informal processes of decision-making to ensure accountability, stability, broad participation, and the rule of law.

It’s time to #AskAboutAI. It’s time for secondary schools to become the hub of community conversations about the ethics and opportunities of our time. We’re on a deadline.

Read the full article about ethics in AI by Tom Vander Ark at Getting Smart