Jun 22, 2024
Dr Oldfield spoke on how to develop Ethical AI Systems. The methods that should be used in order to construct complex systems and the people in the room are often not the right ones to achieve safe and robust outputs. As always with resource problems and budgets there is never time to do the ‘thinking phase’ upfront. This is even more relevant in government where amide;l can affect users accessing services or being discriminated against. The discussion moved into freedom of speech issues and how, when we police ‘politically correct’ speech we can then isolate users from services. We have to understand that not everyone uses the same words and what is out today is in tomorrow or might mean something different next year. Therefore we cannot just ban words and language or set ourselves up as arbiters of free speech. Our mission is to help people access services in whatever way we need to. This applies in large measure to chatbot type services.