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Risks, Benefits and Responsible AI

From healthcare to warfare, the rapid embrace of artificial intelligence in nearly every sector of society is raising important legal, social and ethical concerns. The potential benefits of this powerful technology are enormous. But so are the risks. In order to create a future that will maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, we need to be informed and involved.

• Teachers need an awareness of how AI intersects with their discipline and a curriculum to explain the ethical issues to students.
• Technology teams need tools to help them develop AI software that is safe, trustworthy and transparent.
• Citizens and lawmakers need guidelines to help them engage in an educated discussion about public policy for AI.

Explore AI Ethics provides a small sampling of the wide range of materials available to help you understand, practice and promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Moral Code: The Ethics of AI
Mini-documentary produced by Hewlett-Packard
June 29, 2018 | Runtime 8 minutes

Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms: Pros and Cons
Mini-documentary by DW Documentary
September 26, 2019 | Runtime 51 minutes

Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI
Mini-documentary produced Wired Magazine
June 20, 2019 | Runtime 41 minutes

For Everyone

• Documentary — PBS Frontline: In the Age of AI
• News — The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something
• Book — A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
• Project — The Privacy Project, a New York Times Series of news articles and videos
• Book — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

For Policy Makers

• Documentary — Artificial Intelligence and its Ethics
• Report — 2019 AI Now
• Guideline — IEEE: Ethically Aligned Design – A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, v2
• Tool — Democratising Decisions About Technology: A Toolkit
• News — The First Effort to Regulate AI Was a Spectacular Failure

For Programmers

• Conference Paper — “This is Just a Prototype”: How Ethics Are Ignored in Software Startup-Like Environments
• Lecture — AI, Ethics and Algorithms
• Book — The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
• News — The Code I’m Still Ashamed Of
• Lecture — Expecting Professionalism
• Organization — Center for Humane Technology

For Teachers – Higher Ed

• Book — Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
• Curriculum — Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics
• Articles — Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Across CS Education – Harvard University
• Project — Global Responsible Computer Science Community of Practice
• Organization — Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
• Conference Paper — What Do We Teach When We Teach Tech Ethics? A Syllabi Analysis

For Teachers – K-12

• Lecture — K-12 Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence: What Students Should Know
• Report — Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Schools
• News — Teaching Artificial Intelligence in Kindergarten
• Curriculum — An Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Middle School Students
• Curriculum — Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good – Use Coding to Prevent Forest Fires
• Website — AI4K12.org

For Students

• Documentary — Who is Manipulating YouTube, Twitter and Facebook?
• Book — WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
• Project — Moral Machine Experiment
• Book — Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
• Tool — People + AI Guidebook
• Online Course — University of Michigan: Data Science Ethics
• Online Course — Machine Learning Crash Course: Fairness

Articles

• Brave: what it means to be an AI Ethicist
• Explainability Case Studies
• AI-enabled suicide prediction tools: ethical considerations for medical leaders
• Dealing with Emerging AI Technologies: Teaching and Learning Ethics for AI
• “Playing the Whole Game”: A Data Collection and Analysis Exercise With Google Calendar

Books

• Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology
• The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms
• The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI
• The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law
• Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial
• AI Ethics

Curriculum

• A Fun AI Syllabus for Kids
• Hour of Code: AI For Oceans – Learn About Machine Learning and Ethical Use of AI
• Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good – Use Coding to Prevent Forest Fires
• Microsoft AI for Good Schools Challenge – Australia
• Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game

Discussions

• US Department of Defense Officials Discuss Artificial Intelligence Ethics
• CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery
• Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society: A Cross Disciplinary Conversation
• The Role of AI in Healthcare Innovation: Ethical Challenges of AI Innovation
• AI and Ethics: People, Robots and Society

Documentaries

• Does AI make better decisions than humans?
• The Social Dilemma
• The Big Reset 2.0: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Our Lives
• PBS Frontline: Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
• Coded Bias
• A.I. Is Making It Easier to Kill (You). Here’s How.

Events

• 2021-11-11 – Third Annual AI for Good Summit
• 2021-06-07 – The Responsible AI Forum
• 2020-08-31 – RE’20: 28th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
• 2020-08-18 – International Research Conference Robophilosophy 2020

Guidelines

• Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
• Australian Government: AI Ethics Principles
• Mozilla’s Approach to Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• Recommendation of the Council on Responsible Innovation in Neurotechnology
• U.S. Department of Defense: AI Principles – Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence

Lectures

• Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
• AI Weapons, War and Ethics
• Guide towards algorithm explainability in machine learning
• Why we need to design feminist AI
• Creativity: Can Computers Cut It?
• Unintended Consequences: How Tech Ate the World and How We Can Get it Back

News

• 3 Trusted AI Toolkits Join Linux Foundation AI as Newest Incubation Projects
• When Algorithms Give Real Students Imaginary Grades
• The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity
• How AI and Art Hold Each Other Accountable
• UK A-level algorithm fiasco a global example of what not to do – what went wrong and why

Online Courses

• University of San Francisco Data Institute: Applied Data Ethics
• The Linux Foundation: Ethics in AI and Big Data
• Seattle University: AI Ethics for Business
• University of California, Davis: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
• University of Edinburgh: Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation
• University of Helsinki: Elements of AI – An Introduction to AI

Reports

• Stopping Killer Robots: Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control
• National Artificial Intelligence Strategies and Human Rights: A Review
• Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies
• Unchecked Power: The root of big tech issues
• CDEI Review of Online Targeting: Final Report and Recommendations

Tools

• Addressing bias in large-scale AI applications: The LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit
• Fairlearn: A toolkit to assess and improve the fairness of machine learning models
• ECCOLA – a Method for Implementing Ethically Aligned AI Systems
• Closing Gaps Ideation Game
• Foresight into AI Ethics in Healthcare (FAIE-H): A toolkit for creating an ethics roadmap for your healthcare AI project

The Ethical Operating System is a toolkit that guides you through the process of assessing the ethical implications of products that use artificial intelligence. It is a joint creation of the Institute for the Future and Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab. This 78 page document includes:

• A checklist of 8 risk zones to help you identify the emerging areas of risk and social harm most critical for your team to start considering now.
• 14 scenarios to spark conversation and stretch your imagination about the long-term impacts of tech you’re building today.
• 7 future-proofing strategies to help you take ethical action today.