Artificial Intelligence has brought many opportunities and challenges in software development. However, most people forget the ethical implications of this.
According to a panel of experts convened by the European Union:
- Human control: AI should not be seen as a replacement for, nor limiting, human autonomy. All systems should be supervised by humans who should be the ones to decide whether the decisions made by the software are “right or wrong”.
- Robust security: Because AI works with sensitive data and makes decisions based on it, all systems must be extremely secure and accurate. This means they have to be strong in the face of external attacks and reliable in their decision-making process.
- Private data: Security affects the data collected, as it must ensure that all information collected is private and remains so.
- Transparency: AI systems, even the most complex ones, must be easily understandable by any human being. Companies that use them must explain how the AI software works and makes its decisions and make it very clear for end users to understand.
- Diverse and impartial: All AI systems must be available to all humanity, regardless of age, gender, race or any other characteristic. Furthermore, none of these characteristics should be used to influence the results and decisions made by AI.
- Social well-being: AI systems should pursue any goal as long as they promote positive social change. The expert panel highlighted the need for all of them to be sustainable, which means that AI solutions must be environmentally responsible as a central aspect of this social change.
- Accountability: Everything related to AI actions must be auditable. The idea is to ensure that the negative impact of these systems is reduced to a minimum. Furthermore, this also means that any negative impact that may arise must be reported in due time.
Facing such a challenge will not be easy. As governments struggle to keep pace with the extremely dynamic development of AI and companies maintain their power over these advances, the proposed core values seem like good guidelines to start with – but today this seems more like a utopia than a reality. .
In this sense, they feel closer to Asimov's simplistic rules than to a mature ethical framework in the age of AI. However, they share the writer's intention to control the development of artificial intelligence so that it does not end up being just a tool for profit and control, but rather an advancement for all people.
The road ahead promises to be difficult and asks us to remain vigilant and active to ensure that artificial intelligence results in positive changes for everyone and not just the dystopian future that some warn us about.
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Source: BairesDev
