It’s been nearly three years since Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft formed Partnership on AI. The results of its long-awaited work are surprising as they are revealing.
A group of AI ethics academics and advocates want more than a virtuous marketing facade from big tech.
Ethically-challenged tech corporations are steering what AI Ethics standards, research and future regulations look like.
While touting top rankings in a globally-watched accuracy test, Microsoft is pushing for facial recognition regulations that could expose accuracy levels of its competitors’ technologies. Meanwhile, civil liberties advocates worry the overall improvement of industry algorithms could lead to greater adoption of technologies that are not developed or employed in an ethical manner.
A few mostly-ignored lines in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement serve to illuminate the tensions emerging among the public’s right to explainable AI decisions, corporate intellectual property and government security.