This exciting business breakthrough will create new jobs, if we put ethics at the center.
Last modified the sun. thirteen February 2022 20. 06 GMT
It’s easy to run out of news amid coverage of the pandemic, emerging prices of life and rest. However, the UK is doing anythingArray
On Thursday, the government announced it would invest up to £23 million to improve synthetic intelligence (AI) skills by creating up to 2000 scholarships across England. This will fund master’s conversion courses for other people with non-derivative degrees (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
“This will appeal to a less homogeneous group,” says Tabitha Goldstaub, who chairs the AI Governing Council and advises the Alan Turing Institute, “meaning the UK’s AI ecosystem benefits from graduates with other backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences. “
This investment in expanding education and opportunities is just one of many steps in the 10-year national AI strategy, which aims to make Britain a global leader in AI. We are alone; as the Organization for Economic Development’s (OECD) AI marker shows, many other countries have their eyes on the same price.
The first in this race, the United States and China, have larger populations and deeper pockets, while the European Union has an impressive track record in establishing global criteria and regulations for the protection of knowledge. To keep pace, the UK will have to at least find a way to go beyond its weight.
The symptoms are promising. AI is already an unstoppable force in our economy. According to Tech Nation, there are over 1300 AI corporations in the UK. Government-commissioned studies published last month show that UK corporations spent around £63 billion on AI generation and AI-related in Solo in 2020. This figure is expected to exceed £200 billion by 2040, while more than 1. 3 million UK companies are expected to use AI.
Still, to make the most of the opportunities it provides, and perceive the dangers, we will want the way we teach and exercise our workforce. This will be tricky as AI is surrounded by a lot of hype and combined messaging. According to the speaker, AI will be a “deeper replacement than fire or electricity” (Google CEO Sundar Pichai), it could “sound like the end of the human race” (Professor Stephen Hawking) or help us “save the environment, cure diseases”. and explore the universe” (Demis Hassabis, founder of London-based DeepMind).
Some AI researchers are adopting a more cautious tone, arguing that AI is just “steroid statistics” (Dra. Meredith Broussard) and “neither synthetic nor intelligent” (Dr. Kate Crawford). Everyone agrees that AI is transforming work, life, pay warfare and even perceiving what it means to be human, as Professor Stuart Russell explored in his BBC Reith lectures in December.
As we aim to be a global leader in AI, the UK will have to decide between putting ethics at the centre of its strategy or leaving it as an option, at most a productive complement. It’s not a choice between being unethical or ethical; rather, it reflects concerns that regulation could stifle innovation, especially if other countries don’t prioritize ethics in their technique over AI.
However, ethics is not limited to legislation and regulations, compliance and checklists. It’s about designing the world we need to live in. As Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web in 2018, explained: “As we design the system, we design society. . . Nothing is understood. Everything will have to be presented as something that we will be an intelligent concept as a component of our society.
Once again, he was ahead of his time. A new role is emerging in our economy: the specialist in technological ethics. Are you a technologist working in ethics?Can anyone call themselves an expert in technological ethics or is this an anointed position?
Instead of focusing on what tech ethicists are, let’s see what they do. They may have trained in law, knowledge science, design or philosophy or as artists and designers. They can be hired through universities (and not just in philosophy and computer science). ) or work in think tanks, NGOs, private companies or any component of government. They can give new meaning to existing roles, such as researcher, software developer, and assignment manager. Or they might have new responsibilities, such as AI administrator. , algorithmic journalist or SPECIALIST IN AI ETHICS.
They work daily to make sure government websites are available to all UK citizens or fight to force the government to disclose the set of rules it uses to identify other people with disabilities as potential scammers, subjecting them to stressful checks and months of frustrating bureaucracy. They conduct open-source intelligence investigations into crime, terrorism, and human rights violations, provide medical care, or protect children online. They work in virtual truth and augmented truth and build, and warn against, the metaverse.
Some of the world’s leading technology ethicists have been trained and trained in the UK or live and work here now. This gives us a unique opportunity to leverage their talents to ensure that ethics is embedded in our AI strategy, rather than treating it as an option or complement.
It’s simply about rethinking our curriculum or new work tactics. It’s about creating the future.
Stephanie Hare is a researcher and facilitator. Your new one is Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics