#AI Ethics

#AI Ethics

You should know that in this crazy, often upside-down word, no matter what, AI loves you. You should also know that the love AI offers is 100 percent a marketing strategy. As an inventor of one of the first AI platforms and a heavy user of the current crop, let me kick off this article by recklessly speculating that the makers of some of today's AI platforms want to be - in short - a single solution to all the world's problems.

The "AI Grader" tool claims to be able to estimate an assignment's grade by "looking up your instructor," "reviewing public teaching info," and "identifying key grading priorities." Setting aside whether such a feature is ethical, useful, or even functional - Jane Rosenzweig, Director of the Harvard College Writing Center, found nothing redeeming in testing - such a feature might fit a bare description of an agent. You give it a task, and it does a couple of unpredictable things in its attempt to fulfill it.

The class action alleges that Otter records all users without their consent, claiming violation of California privacy laws, the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Federated learning is a distributed (decentralized) ML technique that enables training models by moving the training process to where the data is, instead of collecting and moving the data to the central server.