Kea: Where are Object Database Systems going? - Google Poly ?, Heart device monitors, Self-driving automobiles, Adult robots? Ethical AI * * * Consumer Reports' approach to AI ethics, if you will, and in lieu of 'inspections.' * * * Quaker SPICES - Simplicity - Understandable and Explainable AI, Peace - non-harming (1:55 minute), Integrity - Trust, Community - Citizens, Equality - minimize the risk of bias, Stewardship - businesses and citizens - as an ethic to mediate ETHICAL AI as process

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My question from above, formatted differently:

Thanks for your edifying, timely and topical talk, Roberto. Am curious about the role of law first - and in all ~200 countries’ official languages (a CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch focus) - and the history of law in response to ethical breaches re AI, and building out a framework from this - and esp. re business law? MIT (re racism and fairness AI questions) and Google/Alphabet (re TensorFlow), Stanford and re Silicon Valley history the Food and Drug Administration in relation to Big Pharma, have all addressed many related ethics' questions for example. Why not start with law (California, EU - GDPR) first in building such framework further, and then to inform ethics in the information age - re approaches to ethics' inspection?



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HI Jim,

Tomorrow, at 10 am Eastern Time, the President of Germany is live-streaming from Harvard Law School / BKC ...
"STREAMING TOMORROW | Ethics of the Digital Transformation with the President of Germany, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier"
https://mailchi.mp/cyber/events-504685?e=d21d1ecc31 ... re further AI ethics' learning (at 7am PT).

Seems to me like transparency is a great AI ethics' goal to develop - in each of all ~200 countries, and in their legal systems, and re teaching law in these nation states as well (and with regard to 'ecosystems' too, which was a word Roberto mentioned at the close of the session, that emerge from say a Russia).

Best regards, Scott




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Hi Jim,

Did you grow up as a Unitarian by any chance? Sometimes I've wondered. (My parents met and married in the Unitarian church in Cincinnati, OH, but I didn't grow up with any religion that I know of). Am curious whether Roberto is looking seeking an ethic beyond the law of each of all ~200 countries re substitute a religion for "Christian" ethics (informed too now by 'business ethics' ) ... to inform his AI Ethics' investigation process (not wanting to head in the direction of the historical legacy of the Inquisition, for example?). Is he Italian, Swiss (where one of Switzerland's 4 official languages is Italian) or?

World Univ & Sch's has been developing with a Friendly / Quaker / Atheist Quaker / Non-theist Friends/NtF process, and which is informing WUaS's ethic, and probably re AI eventually as well.

Sincerely, Scott


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Dear Jim,

Thanks so much for your email again. I've been watching/listening again to "Z-inspection: Toward a Process to Assess Ethical AI" - https://youtu.be/jrwuZvt_H7k - and appreciate its focus in developing process for assessing Ethical AI to avoid harm. He describes a self-driving vehicle as an object at 4:42.

With regards to ethics and technologies at MIT, I find MIT Professor of Anthropology (and Quaker I think) Heather Paxson's observations here - https://twitter.com/MIT_SHASS/status/1182280374711394304 - https://shass.mit.edu/news/news-2019-computing-and-ai-humanistic-perspectives-mit-anthropology-heather-paxson - germane, and even wonder whether some WUaS Anthropology graduate students could study some of the Ethical AI questions that Zicari raises in varies countries, languages, and 'AI ecosystems of ethical principles' (Roberto's concept).

Am curious how a Z-inspection of a California/West Coast device in the California ecosystem ethic might work, paralleling a related Z-inspection of Russian AI in its Russian ecosystem ethic, and similarly with China, Africa, Indonesia and India, brainstorming-wise, and with regard to his closing observations.

In watching and thinking about Roberto Zicari's talk, and the Harvard "Ethics in the Digital Transformation" panel too, I'm curious too about developing some further groundwork for AI Ethics at MIT OCW-centric World University and School. Engaging the case or example I mentioned earlier of "what AI Ethics' inspections per Roberto's thinking would do with life-like adult robots that could be programmed in some years to talk dirty," or to talk sexually in a differential way, as objects, (like heart device monitors, or self-driving cars), I'm curious brainstorming-wise, how if law in Nevada / Netherlands already makes the sex trade legal, and if California law might make legal a gig economy including the 'sex trade,' but some ecosystems of AI ethics in these 3 places wouldn't - and also with regard eventually to AI adult robots talking sexually, how would such AI Ethics' inspections from Univ Frankfurt / Intel / IBM work into Russian or Californian AI ecosystem?

And furthermore, in a realistic virtual earth, realistic virtual Harbin (Google Street View at the cellular and atomic levels too), and for actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic field work with robotics, how would such Z-Inspections work?

Re your Trusted AI and real AI, and IBM's very fast computer, one last thing Roberto's IBM CSIG talk didn't seem to address with regard to AI Ethics' inspections is Google's so-called Quantum supremacy - https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1191021805533908994 - and also how this may play out with Google Earth / Maps / Street View / Tensor Flow - Translate too.

And re your email, am wondering how Wikidata lexemes which we all aggregate in Wikipedia's 300 languages will inform Google Translate and how to integrate/ collaborate with the Mozilla Common Voice model.

Thanks for your email this morning.

Best regards, Scott

May blog about some of this today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/






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Hi Jim,

I think you'll find some anthropological insights in the Heather Paxson interview I emailed you. (Heather has a Stanford Ph.D. so she knows the California ecosystem ethics, and to Haverford College in Philadelphia, perhaps the highest achieving historically Quaker college) In terms of Friendly/Quaker ethics, and that even might be applied to Ethical AI, and with regard to the slide at 3:10 - https://youtu.be/jrwuZvt_H7k - S.P.I.C.E.S. come to mind. Quakers/Friends have long had a peace testimony, and a focus too on simplicity, truth and equality, where S.P.I.C.E.S. refers to:
Simplicity - Understandable and Explainable AI
Peace - non-harming (1:55 minute)
Integrity - Trust
Community - citizens
Equality - minimize the risk of bias
Stewardship - businesses

... and I've added the related items from the EU's Roberto Viola in the "Policy Makers and AI" slide at 3:10. Un-programmed Quakers also can seek to facilitate change with social justice, in a quiet activist way.

Looks like Roberto Zicari is Italian ...
http://gotocon.com/aarhus-2012/speaker/Roberto+V.+Zicari
https://digital.hbs.edu/people/roberto-v-zicari/

World Univ & Sch (MIT OCW-centric and wiki) may seek to engage SPICES as we engage and build an ecosystem of Ethical AI in all 7111 known living languages.

Thanks, Scott



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In SPICES, C stands for Community - which could refer to citizens here ...


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Thanks so much, Jim!