Chapter 13
Dealing with the Ethical Considerations of Responsible AI
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding rule-based ethics
Looking at bias and fairness
Reviewing real-world AI failures
AI is becoming a big part of our lives. This chapter guides you in understanding how to use AI the right way. We look at:
- Decisions: How AI decisions are made and how you can make them
- Fairness: How to apply fairness so AI doesn’t favor one person over another
- Privacy: How to explain AI choices clearly to ensure privacy
The information in this chapter will help make AI safe and work well for everyone. After reading this chapter, you’ll be able to play a role in ensuring that AI’s power is used to help, not harm.
Understanding the Ethics of Using AI
Combining greatest-good, rule-based, and character-based ethics — all of which we cover in the following sections — gives you a more complete framework for ethical AI. It ensures that AI systems are not just compliant but also aware and capable of making sound ethical decisions even in complex and novel situations.
Using the greatest-good approach
When using AI, the greatest-good approach guides us to choose actions that offer the most benefits. This method ...
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