I am honored and delighted to be keynoting as part of the ethics track at MyData2017. This is my presentation.
*Please note that while I am Executive Director of The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, the views in this presentation are my own and don't necessarily reflect IEEE as a whole. For info about The IEEE Global AI Ethics Initiative, please check out:
http://standards.ieee.org/develop/indconn/ec/autonomous_systems.html
12. “GDP in the US has gone up every year except 2009, but
most Americans are worse off than they were a third of a
century ago. The benefits have gone to the very top. At
the bottom, real wages adjusted for today are lower than
they were 60 years ago. So this is an economic system that
is not working for most people.”
-Joseph Stiglitz
13. “What we measure informs what we do. And if
we’re measuring the wrong thing, we’re going
to do the wrong thing.”
-Joseph Stiglitz
14. This is an issue when the Artificial Intelligence
we create is influenced, measured or justified
primarily by the GDP.
#ourAIvision
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16. IEEE P7000™
Standards Series
Currently 11 Working Groups focused on:
• Ethical System Design
• Transparency in Autonomous Systems
• Personal Data for Orgs Beyond Compliance
• Addressing Algorithmic Bias
• Governance of Children’s Data
• Governance of Employee Data
• Personal AI Agent
• Robotic / AI and Ethics Ontology
• Robotic / Systems Nudging
• Developing a Kill-Switch for AI
• Human well-being and AI
17. Even if you create these
technologies responsibly, what
are the metrics for societal
success for Ethical AI once
released to the world?
25. Beyond GDP Declaration
1) We must prioritize the environment.
1) We must prioritize people.
1) We must prioritize purpose over
productivity.
1) We must prioritize human well-being
over exponential growth.
26. Beyond GDP Declaration
1) I am worth more than
my wealth.
1) I am worthy to be seen
and valued by the
metrics measuring the
world.
Prioritizing Human Wellbeing for Ethical AI // John C. Havens
Today the primary metric measuring the value of AI or any technology is GDP. Built to measure financial inputs such as exponential growth and income, factors related to environmental or societal sustainability are devalued or invisible. What we measure dictates the values of how and what we build, and the bedrock of Artificial Intelligence and emerging tech is human data. We must move Beyond GDP to prioritize human wellbeing in the metrics related to the data and technology that represents our identity and reflects sustainable values for our species.
Ladies Stand Up!
Ladies Stand Up!
Ladies Stand Up!
https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/victorious/2017/autumn-2017/victoria-alumni
Professor Marilyn Waring is a prominent New Zealand economist and feminist, and a leading activist for women’s human rights.
Marilyn was one of the youngest New Zealanders ever elected to Parliament, serving as a National MP between 1975 and 1984. She was just 23 when she entered the debating chamber and, between 1978 and 1981, she was the only woman in the National caucus. She pushed to have marital rape criminalised, and threatened to cross the floor to vote with Labour on a nuclear-free New Zealand, precipitating the 1984 snap election.
On leaving Parliament, Marilyn earned a PhD in Political Economy and her academic research has been influential in establishing the field of feminist economics. One of her most famous works, If Women Counted, argued for the economic importance of women’s unpaid work and the environment, revealing the serious policy consequences caused by ignoring these when calculating national economic measures such as GDP.
More recently, Marilyn’s work has focused on the inequities of globalisation and the importance of acknowledging women’s work as an international human rights issue, and she has undertaken a range of projects dealing with these issues for the United Nations. She is also a prominent spokesperson for gay and lesbian rights and a strong advocate for same-sex marriages, memorably arguing against civil unions as a lesser form of marriage and hence a way of perpetuating legal discrimination against same-sex couples.
In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.