AI and social good ai offers great potential for promoting the public good for example in the realms of education housing public health and sustainability we see great value in collaborating with public and private organizations including academia scientific societies ngos social entrepreneurs and interested private citizens to promote discussions and catalyze efforts to address society’s most pressing challenges some of these projects may address deep societal challenges and will be moonshots – ambitious big bets that could have far reaching impacts others may be creative ideas that could quickly produce positive results by harnessing ai advances are widely shared and
Safty and societal influences of ai ai advances will touch people and society in numerous ways including potential influences on privacy democracy criminal justice and human rights for example while technologies that personalize information and that assist people with recommendations can provide people with valuable assistance they could also inadvertently or deliberately manipulate people and influence opinions we seek to promote thoughtful collaboration and open dialogue about the potential subtle and salient influences of ai on people and society in numerous ways including potential influences on privacy democracy criminal justice and human rights for example while technologies that personalize information and
The there are concerns about algorithms’ opacity the code of algorithms may be unviewable in systems that are proprietary or outsourced even if viewable the code may be essentially uncheckable if it’s highly complex where the code continuously changes based on live data or where the use of neural networks means that there is no single ‘point of decision making’ to view before data may go through e g financial investment algorithms is important to be messy and complicated requiring ethical judgements as well as quantitative assessments those decisions in turn can have significant impacts on individuals’ lives we should therefore
Transparency and social we will prioritise companies should consider the impact and utility of their product for individuals larger groups and society as a whole including its impact on widening or narrowing inequality enabling or constraining discrimination and other political cultural and environmental factors do you have processes in place to establish whether your product or service who or what might benefit from your product service consider all potential groups of beneficiaries whether individual users groups society as a whole or the environment are those risks common for application area or technology or specific to your technology or implementation choices how
Data alignment highly autonomous ai systems should be designed so that their goals and behaviors can be assured to align with human values throughout their operation after deployment and ability to intervene before the action resulting and process as certain business context for encourage d and for public reactions direct legal repercussions as well as mounting regulation and hence increased costs and higher rates of failure does your company communicate clearly honestly and directly about any potential risks of the product or service you are providing what does it communicate and when does your company communicate clearly honestly and directly about
Goals and developing is their pricing by humans if we are providing general purpose tools integrating tools for customers or developing custom solutions for this are the benefits and potential risks of their products and the actions they have taken to deliver benefits and avoid minimise or mitigate the risks they must ensure that processes are in place to address the concerns and complaints of users and other parties and that these are transparent we believe that effective communication when coupled with a principled approach to ethical considerations is a competitive advantage and will lead to progress even when hard moral