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Ethics for the AI Age

cennydd
February 10, 2017

Ethics for the AI Age

[As presented at Interaction ’17, NYC.]

Over the next two decades, connected products will demand an unprecedented amount of user trust. Technologists and designers will ask the public for yet more of their attention, more of their data, more of their lives. AIs will know users’ deepest secrets. Co-operating devices will automate security and safety. Autonomous vehicles will even make life-or-death decisions for passengers.

But ours is an industry still unwilling to grapple with the ethical, social, and political angles of this future. We mistakenly believe that technology is neutral; that mere objects cannot have moral relevance. And so we make embarrassing blunders – racist chatbots, manipulative research, privacy violations – that undermine trust and harm those we should help.

This is a dangerous trajectory. We urgently need a deeper ethical dialogue about emerging technology, and interaction design’s role within it.

cennydd

February 10, 2017
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  1. bbc.co.uk · 25 march 2016 theguardian.com · 2 october 2014

    azcentral.com · 31 October 2016 cnn.com · 20 april 2016
  2. “We have to demand friction and truth from the products

    we use.” —Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
  3. Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

    Level 5 Light automation of specific functions e.g. cruise/lane control Autonomous steering, acceleration, braking. Driver disengaged but ready. Autonomous in limited environments e.g. freeways. Driver can relax. Fully autonomous except e.g. severe weather. Driver attention not required. Full autonomy to any legal location in all conditions. No autonomy, just warnings
  4. Would I be happy for this to be published in

    tomorrow’s papers? (VIRTUE ETHICS) ETHICAL TEST #4
  5. FURTHER READING Moralizing Technology Peter-Paul Verbeek Design for Real Life

    Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher The Little Book of Design Research Ethics IDEO The Republic Plato Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals Immanuel Kant Utilitarianism JS Mill Introducing Ethics Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt Authority and American Usage David Foster Wallace Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Peter Frase The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia