Tech Firms and Investors Develop AI Ethics, Best Practices
“I see explainability as a core component of having an ethical guardrail around AI,” said managing partner Andreas Roell, who added that he wants every entity to also have a “designated AI ethics officer.”
A tech accelerator run by Innovation Works in Pittsburgh “introduced a voluntary ethics component to its 27-week program for startups, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University,” and all 12 companies in the program participated.
Kozyrkov believes the four principles of teaching human students can apply to safe and effective AI: think about what you want to teach your students; incorporate relevant and diverse perspectives; create well-crafted tests; and build safety nets for when something goes wrong. “It’s time for us to focus on machine teaching, not just machine learning,” she said.
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