E13: Maria Axente - Ethical AI For The Future

The 21st Century Change Agent

Thank you for joining yet another episode of The Change Agent podcast. Today I have a very juicy conversation for you on the future of artificial intelligence or AI. I invited Maria Axente, a Transylvanian AI Ethicist, who is currently part of the PwC UK team working on Responsible AI and AI for Good to join me in ironing out everything AI and Machine Learning.

I hope I am not alone when I say that when I think of AI or ML, a picture of something similar to Terminator or I,Robot comes to mind. And, not too long ago the world was talking about how Ai is being built to make our jobs and us as humans redundant. But, we also know that media likes a big bold title and a sensation. However the development of novel data-driven technologies, such as ML and AI, invariably create novel ethical challenges and dilemmas, which is something we often see being raised and questioned in the industry and across social media, with most recently Netflix releasing The Social Dilemma.
What is the Future of AI and AI Ethics, how can we use AI for good and create social benefit, and when and how our current world and the one we are building can come together and share this Earth cohesively? These are just some the questions I explored in a conversation with Maria.
On this episode you will hear about:

1) Are the sci-fi worthy AI narratives true?
2) The need for upskilling the society.
3) "The universe made me do it" or the unintended consequences.
4) "White washing" of AI and the road to democratising AI.
5) Can AI pioneers such as Google self regulate?

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Resources and Further Reads:
https://hbr.org/2021/01/managing-the-unintended-consequences-of-your-innovations
https://chrisdburr.github.io/blog/automating-ethics/automating-ethics/
https://montrealethics.ai/research-summary-decolonial-ai-decolonial-theory-as-sociotechnical-foresight-in-artificial-intelligence/
https://montrealethics.ai/the-whiteness-of-ai-research-summary/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02003-2