Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots are digital technologies that already have and will continue to have a major influence on humanity’s progress and development. Their use has highlighted basic concerns about what companies should do with those systems, what hazards they pose, and how businesses might manage them. Moreover, everyone nowadays is wondering what are the moral principles behind AI. We try to answer this question in the following lines.
The hazard distribution of AI ethics principles and their meaning.
Although AI ethics are based on concepts, the field has yet to coalesce around a single set of guiding principles. The business world should think about concepts that are better tailored to each domain and situation and strive toward more tangible manifestations that genuinely assist practitioners to lead their activities. However, if we have principles on one side, it, for sure, is necessary to have tools on the other. That is what one research aimed to identify by classifying AI ethics tools and examining the ones already existing on the market.
Key findings of the research acknowledged two main gaps.
- To begin with, critical stakeholders, such as members of marginalized populations, are underrepresented in the use of AI ethical tools and their outcomes.
- Moreover, there are no external auditing tools for AI ethics, which is a barrier to the responsibility and integrity of companies that build AI systems. Nevertheless, the basis is set – there are at least some AI ethics tools already available in the business environment which need addressing improvements.
AI Ethics and privacy.
The arrival of AI raised privacy issues when compared to what humans were capable of previously. AI allows us to shine a light on every nook and cranny, every crevice, and sometimes even crevices we did not think to search for. Privacy, on the other hand, can serve as a paradigm for translating abstract ideas into actual implementations. Regulation to set actual rules that corporations must follow as it did for privacy, might work for AI ethics as well. On that note, before GDPR, the discussion of privacy was also abstract and unimaginable.
What it succeeded in was that the introduction of GDPR generated a feeling of urgency, requiring enterprises to take real steps to comply.
Product teams shifted their roadmaps to include privacy as a priority. Mechanisms were put in place to conduct things like reporting privacy violations to a data production officer.
This example illustrates the need for concrete regulations to keep AI Ethics steady and the same for all.
The lack of well-defined AI ethics structures and the way businesses deploy AI tools.
Various sets of legislation are already appearing in AI regulation. They impose different viewpoints and expectations from different regions of the world. As a result, we may end up in a chaos of regulatory systems that conflicts with human rights. This will make it difficult for businesses to traverse the landscape and comply with the requirements, favoring those with greater resources. Furthermore, if the GDPR precedent is any indication, certain firms may withdraw from particular markets, limiting users’ options and customer satisfaction.
One approach to avoid this is for rules to come with their own set of open-source compliance tools. This would make it easier for numerous firms to compete while also guaranteeing regulatory compliance.
Therefore, AI Ethics will no longer be something abstract but a well-imposed and regulated set of norms.
All in all, businesses are still testing the waters of the ethics and moral principles behind AI. In a highly digitalized world, novelties emerge every day. However, nothing should go unnoticed, especially when we speak about AI technologies and the principles supporting them. The use of AI tools, the control of privacy, and the need for systemic restrictions are just the beginning of the issues that require strong measures. On grounds of business development, AI can give a significant competitive advantage. Nonetheless, by lacking any AI ethics, companies may misuse their benefits.
