Enter machine learning and the capacity to collect large amounts of data and all of a sudden the computer science and cultural heritage communities seem to be arriving at the same point. Is what we are doing and how we are doing it ok? Well, no not really, in my view, but there are… Continue reading More than five lessons
Category: AI trustworthiness
Plurality, Intersectionality and AI
Plurality and intersectionality are concepts mentioned in two information sources relating to the multidisciplinary research agenda being established in relation to ethics and artificial intelligence. The sources worth exploring are from Oxford University and ACOLA (Australian Council of Learned Academies): A discussion of ethical challenges posed by AI, involving experts from fields across Oxford –… Continue reading Plurality, Intersectionality and AI
Responsible Operations: Deep Commitment and Social Tensions
The Responsible Operations: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI in Libraries report authored by Thomas Padilla and published by OCLC meets the pudding test. A foundational piece of research outlining seven professional challenges to ethical approaches (and practical steps forward) to using computational methods in library practice. Committing to Responsible Operations Description and Discovery… Continue reading Responsible Operations: Deep Commitment and Social Tensions
Transparent AI. What’s the Plan?
I listened to Joanna Bryson (a scholar in computer science and ethics) speak at the Fantastic Futures conference (AI4LAM) in December last year on: Information Professionals and Intelligent Machines: Can we Save the Librarians?. Bryson draws the threads of societal change, technology and ethics together when she speaks, and in a way that I find… Continue reading Transparent AI. What’s the Plan?
World Views, Culture, Ethics and AI
My current preoccupation is looking into how and where AI fits into cultural heritage practice and humanities research. Drawing from a range of views on data and AI is paying off. This week’s mix was: An interview with Genevieve Bell from the 3AI Institute at the Australian National University by Jay Hasbrouck on Anthropology, cybernetics,… Continue reading World Views, Culture, Ethics and AI
Trust… and AI? No smoke without fire.
Trying to understand what artificial intelligence is and how machine learning works is a long game (for this library and information scientist). Linking that new technical knowledge with questions around ethics and social impact is critical, but it is hard going and also a bit unnerving. After having read some of Kate Crawford’s research over… Continue reading Trust… and AI? No smoke without fire.