Best Wishes On the Eve Of The New Year

We have already explained to you the effects of software such as Deepfake. We have also written on how artificial intelligence or AI can be biased. Corporates do very little to factor in the ethical considerations in AI decision. All rectification is done later on or post facto. In the beginning of December 2020, there was a conference of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). It incorporated an ethics board which will examine whether the technology suggested could have any potential side effects or whether the research would have unintended uses. Of several thousand submissions, some were flagged and some rejected.

IBM has withdrawn its facial recognition offerings for policing. Still the software is used by several police departments and city administrators. This software has bias and is faulty too.

In ethical considerations, we have to consider privacy and incorrect use of technology.