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An intelligent water gun that uses facial recognition to identify its targets is helping to highlight some of the emerging human rights issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) \u2013 an area of research that is on the rise as new technologies become more and more prevalent in our daily lives.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2018It’s very difficult to be an AI researcher now and not be aware of the ethical implications these algorithms have,\u2019 said Professor Bernd Stahl, director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.<\/p>\n

\u2018We have to come to a better understanding of not just what these technologies can do, but how they will play out in society and the world at large.\u2019<\/p>\n

He leads a project called\u00a0SHERPA<\/a>, which is attempting to wrestle with some of the ethical issues surrounding smart information systems that use machine learning, a form of AI, and other algorithms to analyse big data sets.<\/p>\n

The intelligent water gun was created with the aim of highlighting how biases in algorithms can lead to discrimination and unfair treatment. Built by an artist for SHERPA, the water gun can be programmed to select its targets.<\/p>\n

\u2018Our artist has built a water gun with a face recognition on it so it will only squirt water at women or it can be changed to recognise a single individual or people of a certain age,\u2019 said Prof. Stahl. \u2018The idea is to get people to think about what this sort of technology can do.\u2019<\/p>\n

While squirting water at people might seem like harmless fun, the issues are anything but. AI is already used to identify faces on social media, respond to questions on digital home assistants like Alexa and Siri, and suggest products for consumers when they are shopping online.<\/p>\n

It is also being used to help make\u00a0judgements about criminals\u2019 risk of reoffending<\/a><\/u>\u00a0or even to\u00a0identify those who might commit violent crimes<\/a><\/u>. Insurers and\u00a0tax authorities<\/a><\/u>\u00a0are employing it to help detect fraud, banks have turned to AI to help process loan applications and it is even being\u00a0trialled at border checkpoints<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

Impacts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past year, Prof. Stahl and his colleagues have compiled 10 case studies where they have empirically analysed the impacts of these technologies across a number of sectors. These include the use of AI in smart cities, its use by the insurance industry, in education, healthcare, agriculture and by governments.<\/p>\n

\u2018There are some very high-profile things that cut across sectors, like privacy, data protection and cyber security,\u2019 said Prof. Stahl. \u2018AI is also creating new challenges for the right to work if algorithms can take people\u2019s jobs, or the right to free elections if it can be used to meddle in the democratic process as we saw with\u00a0Cambridge Analytica<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of the most contentious emerging uses of AI is in predictive policing, where algorithms are trained on historical sets of data to pick out patterns in offender behaviour and characteristics. This can then be used to predict areas, groups or even individuals that might be involved in crimes in the future. Similar technology is already being trialled in some parts of the US and the UK.<\/p>\n

Biases<\/strong><\/p>\n

But these algorithms can also learn the biases that already exist in data sets. If a police database shows that mainly young, black men are arrested for a certain crime, it may not be a fair reflection of the actual offender profile and instead reflect historic racism within a force. Using AI taught on this kind of data could exacerbate problems such as racism and other forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u2018Transparency of these algorithms is also a problem,\u2019 said Prof. Stahl. \u2018These algorithms do statistical classification of data in a way that makes it almost impossible to see how exactly that happened.\u2019 This raises important questions about how legal systems, for example, can remain fair and just if they start to rely upon opaque \u2018black box\u2019 AI algorithms to inform sentencing decisions or judgements about a person\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n

The next step for the project will be to look at potential interventions that can be used to address some of these issues. It will look at where guidelines can help ensure AI researchers build fairness into their algorithms, where new laws can govern their use and if a regulator can keep negative aspects of the technology in check.<\/p>\n

But one of the problems many governments and regulators face is keeping up with the fast pace of change in new technologies like AI, according to Professor Philip Brey, who studies the philosophy of technology at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

\u2018Most people today don\u2019t understand the technology because it is very complex, opaque and fast moving,\u2019 he said. \u2018For that reason it is hard to anticipate and assess the impacts on society, and to have adequate regulatory and legislative responses to that. Policy is usually significantly behind.\u2019<\/p>\n

Prof. Brey is coordinator of the\u00a0SIENNA<\/a>\u00a0project, which is developing recommendations and codes of conduct for a range of emerging technologies, including human genomics, human enhancement, AI and robotics.<\/p>\n

Mining<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Information Technology has, of course, already had a major impact on privacy through the internet and the mobile devices we use, but artificial intelligence is capable of combining different types of information and mining them in a way that reveals fundamentally new information and insights about people,\u2019 said Prof. Brey. \u2018It can do this in a very fast and efficient way.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2018Most people today don\u2019t understand the technology because it is very complex, opaque and fast moving.\u2019<\/p>\n

-Prof. Philip Brey, University of Twente, the Netherlands.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

AI technology is opening the door to real time analysis of people\u2019s behaviour, emotions along with the ability to infer details about their mental state or their intentions.<\/p>\n

\u2018That’s something that wasn’t previously possible,\u2019 said Prof. Brey. \u2018Then what you do with this information raises new kinds of concerns about privacy.\u2019<\/p>\n

The SIENNA team are conducting workshops, consultations with experts and public opinion surveys that aim to identify the concerns of citizens in 11 countries. They are now preparing to draw up a set of recommendations that those working with AI and other technologies can turn into standards that will ensure ethical and human rights considerations are hardwired in at the design stage.<\/p>\n

This wider public understanding of how the technology is likely to impact them could be crucial to AI\u2019s survival in the longer term, according to Prof. Stahl.<\/p>\n

\u2018If we don’t get the ethics right, then people are going to refuse to use it and that will annihilate any technical progress,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

The research in this article was funded by the EU. If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published on Horizon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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