By: Jay Yee
Artificial Intelligence is becoming more advanced than ever before. It has become more common in our everyday lives. Artificial Intelligence has been morphed to be viewed as a positive thing or that it only has positive benefits. The future of AI was only seen before as a simple creation, with little complexion. New advancements and growth has turned to the need of super computers and data in mass numbers. AI has advanced and reached many fields, including healthcare and education. AI’s progress has overshadowed the downside. The real problem that is being shielded is the negative impacts and what it could do to us in the future. The question, “Is AI ethical” will be discussed and examples will be given to show.
Privacy
As Artificial Intelligence advances, data is needed to absorb information for certain tasks. Breach of privacy has been a main problem when determining the ethical concerns of AI. With advancements to AI, personal information has been used to complete tasks such as facial recognition, online resumes, medical files, and more. AI scans all this to perform tasks at hand. Throughout recent years, AI processing has scanned a major amount of data that could be personal information. Facial recognition for example, lets AI scan millions and even billions of faces across the world and links up data to faces. This is for identification purposes but also poses a risk for how to establish ethical and legal boundaries.
Bias in AI
Artificial Intelligence isn’t perfect. Bias in AI is seen as a technological problem. AI can be created or a mistake made in the coding to where data isn’t scanned properly. This can result in AI being “biased” towards something like a specific subject, group, or even ethnicity. This ethical problem has to do with data and whether the input is just as good as the output. When humans create AI, the influence of being biased cannot impact AI which is naturally not biased.
Human Factor
Artificial Intelligence is related to humankind and the creators of it. Humans design AI and influence how AI will react and work. Bias in AI and human factors have a close relation. With human influence, AI is not just a technological concern but also a human concern. Is the data that humans provide for AI complete? For AI and the algorithm, it will most likely fill in the blanks or unfinished data. This falls under an ethical concern for being more responsible humans and not letting AI be at fault. The ethical concerns of Artificial Intelligence is being pushed between human beliefs and laws.