Ask the Ethicist: Your Questions about AI Privacy, Bias, and Ethics Answered

Building ethical AI systems is a tricky business, since examining one’s work through an ethical lens may seem to raise more questions than it answers. Following her talk “Privacy: A Surmountable Challenge for Computer Vision,” we’ll have an extended conversation with Prof. Kennedy in which she will take questions from the audience covering issues of privacy, bias and ethics in AI systems. What are best practices for building privacy into product design? What can we do to reduce bias in AI systems? Does the presence of bias automatically render a tool ethically unjustifiable? Is ethics really necessary in cases where the relevant laws and regulations are being followed? How should one balance ethical considerations against the company’s objectives? How should teams be structured to minimize ethical issues? Bring your queries and expect an interesting conversation!