Ethics vs. compliance in AI
But when it comes to responsible technology use, Heather Roff, senior research analyst, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, warned that viewing it as compliance could be detrimental.
"Ethics is not compliance and if we think about ethics as compliance then we are failing as moral agents," Roff said during the panel.
"If you think about ethics as compliance or compliance officers or inspectors general then you are actually getting the bare minimum of what ethics is. Ethics is about…how to think about doing things responsibility. What am I thinking about when I build it" and not "is the compliance officer watching."
Roff also said basic research and testing were integral to the ethics conversation.
"Basic research is just not funded to the levels it needs to be funded," Roff said. "We need more basic research and funding for things like testing and evaluation...because testing supports the principles."
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