A computer cleverer than you?
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, last week told The Guardian
that tech companies should stop behaving as though everything that is not
illegal is acceptable. Mr. Smith made a good argument that technology may be
considered morally neutral but technologists can’t be. He is correct that
software engineers ought to take much more seriously the moral consequences of
their work. This argument operates on two levels: conscious and unconscious. It
is easy to see the ethical issue in Microsoft’s sale of facial recognition
technology to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement while the Trump
administration was separating children from parents at the US’s southern
border. The moral stance of more than 3,000 Google employees who protested
about its Maven contract—where machine learning was to be used for military
purposes, starting with drone imaging—with the US Department of Defense should
be applauded. Google let the contract lapse. But people with different ethical
viewpoints can take different views.
Opinion polls show that Americans are not in favour of developing
Artificial Intelligence technology for warfare, but this changes as soon as the
country’s adversaries start to develop them... We know how to make machines
learn. But programmers do not understand completely the knowledge that
intelligent computing acquires. If we did, we wouldn’t need computers to learn
to learn.
The Guardian, UK
Source | Mint | 24th
September 2019
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