#32 Please Don't Blow Everything Up - AI Ethics & The Future Of Civilization - With Reid Blackman, PHD

An ethical AI framework means the survival of the human species. Get it wrong, and we blow ourselves up. But who will write the AI Ethical rulebook? Have we left it too late? When the priority is humanity and culture and the threat of existential annihilation is real, the ethical guidelines governments and big tech put in place now will determine what happens in the future. Do we have one shot at this? What happens if we get it wrong? Reid Blackman is the author of "Ethical Machines," creator and host of the AI ethics podcast “Ethical Machines,” and Founder and CEO of Virtue, a digital ethical risk consultancy. Reid is an advisor to the Canadian government on their federal AI regulations, a founding member of EY’s AI Advisory Board, and a Senior Advisor to the Deloitte AI Institute. He has advised and spoken on AI and ethics to AWS, US Bank, the FBI, NASA, and the World Economic Forum. His thought leadership has garnered attention from The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and Forbes. Finally, prior to founding Virtue, Reid was a professor of philosophy at Colgate University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Please enjoy the show! ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Quotes From Reid Blackman on AI and Ethics during the show: “Think what your organization's ethical, reputational, regulatory and legal nightmares are. Define those ethical nightmares in a comprehensive way, and then systematically and comprehensively put in controls to stop them from happening.” “There are lots of statements out there by lots of organizations, governments, non-profit, corporations that say, "Here's our ethical standards," and they're strikingly similar to each other. “We're for fairness, we're for transparency, we're for accountability, we're for non-discrimination, we're for respecting privacy.” They’re keywords.” “Some people say “oh AI ethics, it's about social benefit and positive social impact. That's great, go do that, but that's not priority number one. Priority number one is "let's not blow everything up.” “The thing that businesses need to understand is you don't have to cater to your bottom line, this is not about stifling innovation, it's about stifling really ethically bad innovation.” “We already have a human rights framework that's internationally agreed upon. It's required of all organizations to do a human rights assessment for all the AI that they're creating throughout the AI lifecycle and to engage in robust risk mitigation, human rights violation mitigation strategies and tactics throughout that, and to document it and to be transparent about it with the relevant authorities.” “It's about an ethical risk appetite that's compatible with business risk appetite and operational risk appetite.” “The Continental philosophers can be more literary than analytical. And I think that the analytic approach to philosophy, which is the dominant approach in the top research institutions, lends itself just to the quick grasping of lots of concepts and how they relate to each other.” ⛓️ 🔗𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐓𝐨 Reid 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐰🔗 ⛓️ Reid Blackman - https://www.reidblackman.com/ Ethical Machines - https://a.co/d/2Fdr8qC Virtue - Ethical Consultancy - https://www.virtueconsultants.com/about EU Guidelines For Ethical AI - https://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/ai-alliance-consultation.1.html Reid Twitter - https://twitter.com/reidblackman Reid LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/reid-blackman ======================

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