What do we need Ethical and Responsible AI ?

This class is focused on ethical and responsible AI broadly, across all of the impacts that AI is making across our world.  We will start by examining broad implications of widespread use of AI across society in general.  This will involve diving into the effects of automation and AI on jobs as well as on many behind the scenes applications of AI, where it can be affecting your daily life but you may not even be aware AI is being used.

The first part of the class will focus on what happens when unethical or biases AI is deployed and used and how those impacts spread across society.  The second part of the class will dive into how these AI methods are currently made and vetted and then we will dive into how we can improve this going forward.

The movie graphics on the right are a bit of a tongue-in-cheek answer to what Hollywood thinks about our future and how robots and AI can transform our society. I don’t think these are particularly realistic, which is why I say tongue-in-cheek but they do get one thinking!

Hollywood’s views of our future

View of the Earth from Wall-E

Humans in Wall-E’s world