Bad Robots – Racial Bias

Bad Robots – Racial Bias

Bad Robots – Racial Bias Bad Robot Outcome: Algorithms determine that ‘black’ offenders twice as likely to reoffend as ‘white’ offenders The Story An AI software application called COMPAS, (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions),...
Bad Robots

Bad Robots

Bad Robots Bad Robot Outcome: AI determines a heart attack for men = panic attack for women The Story In September 2019, the Times reported a complaint against HealthTech start up, Babylon Health (endorsed by the NHS), noting that the app told a 60 year old female...
What are ethics?

What are ethics?

What are ethics? To me the word ‘ethics’ evokes some trepidation. Am I ethical? Is what I am doing ethical? what makes something  unethical? My first serious venture into ethics was when I ran a philanthropic program hiring female prisoners, once released, into one of...
What is AI?

What is AI?

What is AI? John McCarthy coined the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) in 1956 when he invited a group of researchers from a variety of disciplines including language simulation, neuron nets and complexity theory to meet and discuss ‘software that mimics human...