The EU AI ACt makes ethics affordable
What does the EU draft regulation on AI mean for companies? Will they see it as a burden or do they embrace it as meaningful guidance? I was invited to a short podcast on my views on these matters.
Kategorie: aiethics
KI & Ethik Im Unterricht
Das Montreal AI Ethics Institute hat mich, zusammen mit meinen ForHumanity-Kollegen Merve Hickok und Ryan Carrier, zu unseren Gedanken über das Lehren von KI und Ethik interviewt. Ich empfehle, KI-Ethik so anwendungsorientiert wie möglich zu halten und die Menschen zu inspirieren, darüber nachzudenken, was das für ihre eigene Arbeitserfahrung bedeutet.
Privacy violations Are irreversible. data leaks can’t be compensated
In the year 2021, after countless shitstorms about privacy violations, after Cambridge Analytica, at the same time as people leave Whatsapp because they disagree with their new privacy, Clubhouse comes to Europe with a business model that disregards any legal and ethical considerations, and they are successful.
Thought Leader Talk: Ethik kann Spass machen
Die Swiss Mobile Association hat mich als Thought Leader interviewt. Ich sage unter anderem: «Ich stelle die Warum-Frage nicht nur in Bezug auf Innovation oder Fortschritt, sondern auch in Bezug auf den Status Quo».
TedX: AI – freedom within, freedom without
We praise AI for detecting patterns we can’t see. But how free are we if we stop thinking for ourselves? My TEDx talk explores what we risk when we delegate our judgment to machines.
Robinhood: democratized finance on shaky ground
More than 900 years after the heroic figure Robin Hood set out to steal from the rich and give to the poor, two American entrepreneurs borrowed his name to establish a fintech company that claims to “democratize finance for all”. But the new Robinhood’s claim of ‘democracy’ is on shaky ground. Just as the company…
Ethics is not just about right or wrong but also about why
„People often feel uncomfortable talking about ethics. My mission is to enter a company, a classroom, a stage, and take away that unease“, I say in my interview with influencer marketing platform Onalytica.
KI, Nachhaltigkeit und Ethik: grosse Fragen auch für kMu
Im Gespräch mit Birgit Eschbach rede ich über Nachhaltigkeit, Verantwortung und Ethik: von Microsofts carbon-negativ Strategie, über die Emissionen von GPT-3, bis hin zur Relevanz dieser Themen für Standortförderungsorganisationen oder ein KMU im Rheinland.
AI is a tool, not a right. It’s not an end in itself.
„We might trust machines more than people when we communicate with them but this is dangerous because behind every machine there are the people that create it“. Just one of my statements from my lively talk with Kimberly Misquitta from Indian chatbot company Engati.
No, we don’t want to ‘democratize’ AI
The talk about democratizing AI is a clever marketing move. Democracy is an inherently positive term. By suggesting that AI is in everyone’s interest, it is not far off from framing AI as a basic need. But let’s not be fooled: AI is not a basic need. It is a tool, that is, a means…
Four reasons why hyping AI is an ethical problem
Hyping AI creates ethical challenges on top of the existing ones. Here is how: 1. AI hype does not question the very purpose of AI. 2. AI hype is linked to misleading promises. 3. AI hype directs energy at something that is barely tangible. 4. AI hype exaggerates the capabilities of AI when effectively humans…
Fake it till you make it: AI and Hype
The Algo 2020 conference invited me on a panel discussion titled „Fake it till you make it – AI and Hype“. My 4 key points: 1. AI hype does not question the very purpose of AI. 2. AI hype is linked to misleading promises. 3. AI hype directs energy at something that is barely tangible.…
