How ethics will change the future of technology | Olivia Gambelin | TEDxPatras

Even before the ancient Greek philosophers had written their first words, humans had been using ethics as a tool in the pursuit of living a good life.

Flash forward to the modern day, and we find before us the opportunity to utilize this very same tool in the pursuit of good tech. As current innovation practices in tech today fall flat off our world-changing aspirations, how can we look to transform the ancient practice of applying ethics to our lives into the modern-day practice of applying ethics to AI?

Olivia Gambelin explains that it is time to pursue good technology through a new form of AI innovation that focuses on human well-being and values. Olivia is an AI Ethicist who specializes in the practical application of ethics to technological innovation and the founder of Ethical Intelligence.

Originally from the Silicon Valley, Olivia began her career working in digital strategy for tech startups. Following her graduation from the Honors College of Baylor University with a BA in Philosophy and Entrepreneurship, Olivia moved overseas to pursue the opportunity to expand her international network as a GDPR and data privacy researcher in Brussels. This experience prompted her return to academia to obtain her MSc in Philosophy, concentration in AI Ethics, at the University of Edinburgh. During her time in Scotland, Olivia co-founded the Beneficial AI Society and completed her dissertation with distinction on the effects of probability on the moral responsibility of autonomous cars.

[pablodelcastillo]

She basically said that most social media and technology are not ethical and that it should become more ethical, but if ethics is the compass that allows us to align our actions with our values, then you have to change the values of the people who are creating all of this technology. Maybe, all this people (according to their values)they are being ethical, but just happens that most people in society have different values.

[Race-ist]

This topic is arguable but she has a point. As human being, we really forgot the purpose of innovation. But I think that if human beings have values, why does it get worse?

[compostjohn]

@14:49 "To be human means to be an innately moral creature...." I'm not sure I agree with this. It's a fascinating talk and has ideas I've not considered, but this penultimate line just doesn't ring true. I feel that many (if not most) humans have a 'dark side' and in some, this manifests itself in greed, in being a user, an abuser, a controller, or deceiver. Yes some of these people will know these behaviours are 'morally wrong' but some won't, and will have a set of ethics and morals which allow them to do these things and think it's OK. However I've not thought this through and other opinions are valid, and I welcome thoughts on the subject.

[hesedjackd.alvarez]

Technology and AI without ethics is disastrous and self-serving. We need to watch out how technology and AI are used for the good of humanity.

[chuckthompson]

She captured the core issue in the creation of another tool that can do immense good or bad. A nice summary on the need to understand the next arms race playing out. In this case, not enough people can see how unbridled tech/info can push the train off the tracks to the highest bidder with little regard.

[MawladadMawlahi-qubd]

I really like this lecture, We should not be rewarding these people in our society, because rewarding personalities and behavior like that only leads to it becoming more common, and the effects only worsening. We need to rethink how we reward certain values and behaviors from individuals so that we can build a more ethical and harmonious society that is not controlled as much by these kinds of individuals. Individuals who exploit our desires and psychology for their own benefit. As if we were nothing but cattle or slaves.

[natheria]

I really like this lecture. I think while everyone might have varying differences in values i believe there is still a majority owned shared universal code of ethics that the majority of humanity has. It's just that certain minorities who can become malignant in society end up becoming the most influential, and their values are much more self invested then most people's are. Which is why many overlook ethics for the sake of self investment because they consider that value more important then maintaining ethics. Sure they might pretend like they care but they only do that because faking it makes their self investment greater because they know what people want to hear. We should not be rewarding these people in our society, because rewarding personalities and behavior like that only leads to it becoming more common, and the effects only worsening. We need to rethink how we reward certain values and behaviors from individuals so that we can build a more ethical and harmonious society that is not controlled as much by these kinds of individuals. Individuals who exploit our desires and psychology for their own benefit. As if we were nothing but cattle or slaves.

[melzz]

Simply put she implies that human ethics aligned with their purpose "Here I stand" drives certain amount of more fitted decisions and results. And that should be included in the robotic program based on their purpose as well in some sort of solution l, algorithm? Or such for THE BEST resulting outcomes. Not the most accurate ones.

[neder-bob]

Do you want to measure and gather everything that you can? If you do, you’ll get insight in increasingly more. That means something for yourself, for your organization. You get more responsibility, even for things that are out of your span of knowledge, and therefore your span of control. The knowledge and the data gathered brings with it an increased responsibility.
The thing with the big tech companies is that they don’t take, or accept the additional responsibility. They wave it off as if it’s not theirs… not their intent, not their fault, not their responsibility. What is claimed here is that this conduct is unethical.

[CrYpticvoyagerFan]

she a baddie tho, aarav agarwal likes her

[mohamedelrby]

God loves you and takes care of you. The biggest loss that a person loses in this life is to live and die while he does not know God or His Messenger, Muhammad, the last of the prophets and the Islamic religion, the last of the heavenly religions, from intelligence. Before you believe in something or not, study it and try to understand it well, and then you have the choice.  By reading the Noble Qur’an with translation and trying to understand it before time runs out

[ozziecoops]

Ethics? That's laughable in these times.

[bambumbambu]

is it ethical to have 2 wifes? solve this first!

[LUCIFER_THE_MORNING_STAR__]

She look like a half a college got her tho