“Kate Vredenburgh says individuals are, in fact, owed explanations when AI makes decisions that affect our lives. Vredenburgh, who is a 2019-2020 postdoctoral fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University, will soon start an assistant professorship in the philosophy, logic, and scientific…
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Monitoring is critical to successful AI – TechCrunch
“The market for advanced technologies including AI and ML will continue its exponential growth, with market research firm IDC projecting that spending on AI systems will reach $98 billion in 2023, more than two and one-half times the $37.5 billion that was projected to be spent in 2019. Additionally, IDC foresees that retail and banking…
XAI—Explainable artificial intelligence
“For many critical applications in defense, medicine, finance, and law, explanations are essential for users to understand, trust, and effectively manage these new, artificially intelligent partners The purpose of an explainable AI (XAI) system is to make its behavior more intelligible to humans by providing explanations. Accuracy versus interpretability – Interpretability needs to consider tradeoffs…
AI acceptance and the man on the Clapham omnibus
“The issues of ethics in AI revolve around four key tenets: security, transparency, fairness and liability. Each of these concerns, when addressed, promote trust in the application of artificial intelligence. In other words, the trust generated by ethical use can be viewed as a driving factor to AI acceptance by consumers. Security The Facebook Cambridge…
Google Brain Built a Translator so AI Can Explain Itself
“Show Your Work A Google Brain scientist built a tool that can help artificial intelligence systems explain how they arrived at their conclusions — a notoriously tricky task for machine learning algorithms. Transparency Tools like TCAV are in high demand as AI finds itself under greater scrutiny for the racial and gender bias that plagues artificial…