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Ensuring the safe development of AI products As Eduardo Azanza , CEO at Veridas , explains , with the rapid adoption of AI technology , ensuring that it is responsibly and ethically used by businesses is essential .
Highlighting this , earlier this year the World Ethical Data Foundation released a framework for developing AI products safely – hoping to tackle some of these challenges .
“ For newer forms of AI to be successful in the long term , there needs to be trust from customers and the wider public ,” commented Azanza . “ Organisations looking to implement AI should strongly consider following the framework released by the World Ethical Data Foundation , or the ones released by NIST and the NCSC .
“ AI technology should always be based on transparency and compliance , not only with legal and technical standards but also with the highest ethical values . As AI continues to see exponential growth , it is extremely important that organisations rigorously audit and document the risk analysis of their systems .
“ Ensuring that technologies comply with stringent privacy standards and frameworks not only keeps the business itself secure but also gains the trust of customers , knowing that AI is used ethically and responsibly .”
A lack of diversity in tech Without human intervention , AI could be reinforcing some damaging societal bias . “ People are biased – mostly in an unconscious way – so it is possible that , without a careful methodology , such biases are embedded in both the data and in any other developer ’ s decisions in building an AI system ,” Francesca Rossi , IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader , told us earlier this year .
On this topic , in a fireside chat at this year ’ s Tech LIVE Virtual London , Nayur Khan , Partner at QuantumBlack , discussed a range of topics around ethical AI : from the biggest ethical challenges around AI and how they should be managed to the need for diversity when it comes to building AI .
“ There is a lack of diversity in tech generally ,” he said . “ 22 % of tech roles across Europe are women . In the US , less than 5 % of software developers are black . There ’ s a problem there .
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98 October 2023