July 2021 Seminar : Ethical Artificial Intelligence

Summary

What is ethical, or responsible, artificial intelligence (AI) ? In essence, we can identify three concerns/issues : “the moral behaviour of humans as they design, make, use and treat artificially intelligent systems.” “A concern with the behaviour of machines, in machine ethics” – for example, computational ethics. ” “The issue of a possible singularity due to superintelligent AI” – a fascinating glimpse into the future as computers might ‘take over’. Is this still science fiction ?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_artificial_intelligence#Singularity

This seminar encompassed important topics for Knowledge Management and Information Management  practitioners. Topics included ‘bias’ in the machine, in machine learning, in the content cycle, in the taxonomy, in the text analytics, in the algorithms  and, of course, in the real world. Critically, where do knowledge organization systems fit in and how can practitioners play a role in creating ethical artificial intelligence ?  Should companies begin to develop an AI ethics strategy that is publicly available ?

Speaker

The speaker was Ahren Lehnert  – Senior Manager, Text Analytics Solutions of Synaptica.com and he is based in Oakland, California, USA. https://www.synaptica.com/

Ahren is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University in the Mid-West and a post-graduate of Stony Brook University in New York.

Ahren is a knowledge management professional passionate about knowledge capture, organisation, categorisation and discovery. His main areas of interest are text analytics, search and taxonomy and ontology construction, implementation and governance.

His fifteen years of experience spans many sectors including marketing, health care, Federal and State government agencies, commercial and e-commerce, geospatial, oil and gas, telecom and financial services.

Ahren is always seeking ways to improve the user experience through better functionality and the most ‘painless’ user experience possible based on the state of the industry, best practices and standards.

Time and Venue

Thursday July 22nd at 2:30pm  on a Zoom online meeting.

Slides

Slides available for members in the Members Hub.

Tweets

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Blog

There is a blog available here.

Study Suggestions

Ontologies and Ethical AI | Synaptica LLC

Ethics & Bias in the Content Cycle | Synaptica LLC

 

Rob Rosset 27/07/2021