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<\/p>\nMany technology professionals bristle at the word ethics as an intangible topic more likely to show up as a required training course than part of daily risk mitigation.<\/p>\n
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Image credit:\u00a0Depositphotos<\/a><\/p>\n But when called to defend how you are mitigating the brand and PR risk of a\u00a0Tay Chatbot<\/a>\u00a0or 787 Max autopilot, you are likely to \u201cfind religion\u201d in the form of ethics. Autonomous and intelligent systems (A\/IS) deployment is accelerating, and managing the risks will be fundamentally different from previous technology waves.<\/p>\n We used to build confidence in technology via testing and certification. But if you had the ability to ask Tay, the chatbot would describe exhaustive testing as impossible as there is no longer control over the inputs reaching your system or algorithms. In an A\/IS world, there are an infinite number of test cases, many of which can be simulated but not all tested. In order to be convincing to your customers, CEO, board, employees, and social responsibility leaders, testing and an ethical framework will be required.<\/p>\n Technology adoption in business is routine. But A\/IS is fundamentally different from prior generations of technology.<\/p>\n While ethical frameworks can seem daunting, there are simple ways to begin. The graphic below describes how an ethical framework can be part of the technology narrative.<\/p>\n To be a leader in managing A\/IS risk, a company must imbue ethics throughout development, testing, and operational processes. There are many emerging standards under development\u00a0from the IEEE<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0other trusted organizations<\/a>\u00a0in this area.<\/p>\n A\/IS has no human operator to \u201chit the kill switch\u201d when something strange happens. An ethical framework must incorporate a \u201csupervisory\u201d function outside of the A\/IS. Constantly monitoring for inappropriate behavior to \u201chit the kill switch\u201d and initiate a graceful shutdown or fail safe routine.<\/p>\n While difficult to evaluate consistency across laws, regulations, and social norms, a starting point is Rules of Reasonableness.<\/p>\n Examples may include:<\/p>\n So building simple ethical frameworks with supervisory functions to evaluate A\/IS behavior is not only the right thing to do, but will be a requirement for insurance coverage and a prerequisite of your risk management team to deploy new technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We used to build confidence in technology via testing and certification. In order to be convincing to your customers, CEO, board, employees, and social responsibility leaders, testing and an ethical framework will be required. While ethical frameworks can seem daunting, there are simple ways to begin. Autonomous and intelligent systems (A\/IS) deployment is accelerating, and managing the risks will be fundamentally different from previous technology waves. Technology adoption in business is routine. But A\/IS is fundamentally different from prior generations of technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":2959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[97],"ppma_author":[3260],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-ml","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"authors":[{"term_id":3260,"user_id":569,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mark-halverson","display_name":"Mark Halverson","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"Halverson","first_name":"Mark","job_title":"","description":"Mark Halverson is Founder and CEO at Precision Autonomy. He is also the co-chair of the General Principles Committee of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems<\/a>. 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Risk is shifting from humans to machines<\/h3>\n
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Businesses adoption of A\/IS is accelerating<\/h3>\n
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Insurance as a proxy for regulation<\/h3>\n
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Data is the difference<\/h3>\n
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So what can be done?<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nEthical framework starter kit<\/h2>\n
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