Reliance on AI for Decision Making

As I was getting prepared to teach a graduate class on Ethics in IT, I was reminded—again—about the incredible power and vulnerabilities of AI-based decision making. With more frequency than I’d like, I see the phrase “AI Ethics,” and am quickly reminded that AI, in and of itself, has no ethics. There is really no such thing as “AI Ethics.” In fact, AI is merely a process (or, more accurately a series of processes) that are used to guide decision making. However, the fact is that truly ethical use of AI applications and systems requires careful consideration of the inherent biases brought to those processes by those who create, market and deploy them. 

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