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Discussion Questions:
1. What ethical problems in the online world are AI programs meant to alleviate?
From the article "AI will solve Facebook’s most vexing problems, Mark Zuckerberg says. Just
don’t ask when or how." the ethical problems that AI technology will be alleviate is spread of
harmful content. The AI tries to learn and remove thousands of fake accounts and find suspicious
activities to spot and report fraudulent activity. Some other way AI may help with ethical
problem is noting suicidal posts of a user and suggesting resources for suicide prevention. In the
article, Mark Zuckerberg has been recorded saying that Facebook has been very successful
utilizing AI to fight of 99 percent of ISIS and al-Qaeda content before any human users can see
it.
2. The designers of the Tay AI bot did not intend for it to be racist or sexist, but
many of its Tweets fit these labels. Should we hold the designers and programs
ethically accountable for this machine learning Twitter bot?
AI learns from data and iteration of the said data and learning to produce response. Tay AI bot
may not have been originally deemed possible for racist and sexist comments, but AI has no
ability to spot linguistic nuances and social context. From the article "AI will solve Facebook’s
most vexing problems, Mark Zuckerberg says. Just don’t ask when or how.", it's noted that
Facebook's AI has been deemed technically incapable of spotting discriminatory housing ads and
that AI in current marking lacks training to understand eccentricities of human speech. Ethically
speaking the designers and program should be held responsible. In this early trial, the AI bot Tay
was online for less than 24 hours. It was right to take it down and learn from the mistakes and
have some sort of filtering bias and not let every post towards the bot influence it's data pool.
This incident was great example of realization that prevention methods are required for AI bots
open to public.
3. In general, when should programmers and designers of autonomous devices and
programs be held accountable for the learned behaviors of their creations?
In general, I believe programmers and designers can only do so much as far as learned behaviors
of their creations. AI will learn from the data given and will not distinguish ethical or not and just
learn from the data. This means that intention of person training the said AI is much more
important than the creator who's put in a function for an AI bot. From article Jordan Pearson,
“It’s Our Fault That AI Thinks White Names Are More 'Pleasant' Than Black Names.” while
intention was nor evil or good, the trainer can create a bias for the AI bot that can be considered
racist. This means the data that goes into the bot is just as important as the function that AI is
given and is designed with.
4. What ethical concerns revolve around giving AI programs a significant role in
content moderation on social media sites? What kind of biases might our
machines risk possessing?
Censorship is a big issue as Americans value freedom of speech. Giving AI program a significant
role in content moderation on social media sites means that whatever bias that AI was trained on
is what the program will follow which may or may not be kind of content programmers
originally developed it for. From the article "It’s Our Fault That AI Thinks White Names Are
More 'Pleasant' Than Black Names" it was shown that AI can take on cultural association without
the meaning behind the connotation resulting in racist or sexist bias without meaning to do so.
The article asks an important question at the end of how AI can vacuum up humanity in all of its
beauty and ugliness, and still act in a way that's not prejudiced. This will take more advancement
and research of scientists and ethicists.
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