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What are the ethical and responsiblties challeneges for using AI

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Philip Owusu Site Performance Analyst| Helios Towers Accra, Ghana
AI offers a multitude of benefits across different sectors, enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and innovation. However, it's important to use AI ethically and responsibly, addressing potential biases, privacy concerns, and societal impacts.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
In my personal opinion, no more than those to take into account when using any other media or "massive data consumption" method because the data is converted to information and information is power. Beyond ethics is to teach people about do not fall in "the matrix". The use of AI is not new. In my case I am using and researching from 1989, long time ago.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
There's a great recent HBR article on this very topic: https://hbr.org/2023/08/generative-ai-nxiety

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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
AI is still in its early stages and addressing Ethical, Privacy and Security is a concern to many and this is why some countries and/or organizations are blocking AI technologies like ChatGBT until more clarity on those elements is provided.
There are a number of initiatives that tackles the topic on AI Ethics and Challenges. Some examples are from the UK and our professional organization The BCS-The Chartered Institute for IT with their submission on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence, another is from TUM with their Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI).
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
Philip

I see a lot of areas of concern regarding AI and ethics. A basic one is:

If an AI could be considered ethical, we as users/humans need to have trust in them. Have a look at the values in PMI's code of ethics:
- AI needs to respect humans (but which, we have so many communities),
- be accountable (how? punish it by shutting it down? would it even learn from punishments as we assume humans do?),
- be honest (not produce so called hallucinations - which are outright lies as output trumps accuracy),
- be fair (understand and balance the needs of others, I do not see they even care about fairness).

As long as these values (and some more) are not incorporated in the behaviours of AI, there will be an ethical problem. Does it mean AI then has to be sentient, feeling those values? Does AI need to have consciousness and self-awareness?

AI's are today big statistical machines, depending on the data they are fed, which includes biases and behavioural patterns. As human we are not ethical all the time, not even close, ethics are something we may like, accept and strive for, a target, a vision. So the data shows lots of unethical behaviours. And AI learns from that.

For me this is a basic problem. And it is already apparent. Even before AI we have business algorithms making decisions that impact humans (e.g. insurance claims, credit lines, school grading, reliability scores). This is automation of bureaucracy and processes without merci for humans, with a priority on mass handling. AI will explode this.
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
It is hot topic nowadays.
All in all, I think there must be some strict regulations for this.

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