McKinsey posted a podcast started with a question about whether we should worry about AI ethics and got this response "We are right to worry about the ethical implications of AI. Equally, I think we need to celebrate some of the benefits of AI. The high-level question is, "How do we get the balance right between those benefits and the risks that go along with them?"" The January 2019 podcast is entitled "The McKinsey Podcast The ethics of artificial intelligence" included these comments:
On the benefit side, we can already see hundreds of millions, even billions of people using and benefiting from AI today. It's important we don't forget that. Across all of their daily use in search and things like maps, health technology, assistants like Siri and Alexa, we're all benefiting a lot from the convenience and the enhanced decision-making powers that AI brings us.
But on the flip side, there are justifiable concerns around jobs that arise from automation of roles that AI enables, from topics like autonomous weapons, the impact that some AI-enabled spaces and forums can have on the democratic process, and even things emerging like deep fakes, which is video created via AI which looks and sounds like your president or a presidential candidate or a prime minister or some kind of public figure saying things that they have never said. All of those are risks we need to manage. But at the same time we need to think about how we can enable those benefits to come through.
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