[Themaintainers] AI Now 2018 Report

Camille E. Acey connect at camilleacey.com
Thu Dec 6 14:39:18 EST 2018


Welcome, Sarah! Thanks for sharing this great information. 
Camille

On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 11:38 -0500, Sarah Myers West wrote:
> Hi all,
> I only recently joined this list and so haven't properly introduced
> myself yet, but wanted to share a report that my research institute
> released today - among other things, we address issues relating to
> the infrastructure, labor and maintenance of AI systems. I hope it's
> of interest!
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Sarah
> -- 
> 
> Dr. Sarah Myers West
> Postdoctoral Researcher
> AI Now Institute
> New York University
> sarah at ainowinstitute.org | @sarahbmyers
> 
> 
> 
> Today the AI Now Institute publishes our third annual report on the
> state of AI in 2018, including 10 recommendations for governments,
> researchers, and industry practitioners. 
> Read the Report (PDF)See the Recommendations It has been a dramatic
> year in AI. From Facebook potentially inciting ethnic cleansing in
> Myanmar, to Cambridge Analytica seeking to manipulate elections, to
> Google building a secret censored search engine for the Chinese, to
> anger over Microsoft contracts with ICE, to multiple worker uprisings
> over conditions Amazon’s algorithmically managed warehouses – the
> headlines haven’t stopped. And these are just a few examples among
> hundreds. 
> 
> At the core of these cascading AI scandals are questions of
> accountability: who is responsible when AI systems harm us? How do we
> understand these harms, and how do we remedy them? Where are the
> points of intervention, and what additional research and regulation
> is needed to ensure those interventions are effective? Currently
> there are few answers to these questions, and existing regulatory
> frameworks fall well short of what’s needed. As the pervasiveness,
> complexity, and scale of these systems grow, this lack of meaningful
> accountability and oversight – including basic safeguards of
> responsibility, liability, and due process – is an increasingly
> urgent concern. 
> 
> Building on our 2016 and 2017 reports, the AI Now 2018
> Report contends with this central problem, and provides 10 practical
> recommendations that can help create accountability frameworks
> capable of governing these powerful technologies. 
> 
> 
> 
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