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AI Human Impact: Updating ESG Investing for AI-Intensive Companies
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James Brusseau speech
James Brusseau: This is Lane Moore, who runs a stage show called Tinder Live, where the audience watches and hears about her hookup dramas. What does the Tinder app do? It filters your personal information through giant datasets to find your perfect partner. That's the power of AI. Her proposed partners, they all start to look the same. And that's because once the platform identifies your taste, it will keep feeding versions of your model partner with different names. Which is good since that's what you like.
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It's a Match! You and Hugo have liked each other. Send Message Keep Playing Tell Your Friends
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James Brusseau speech
But you're also sacrificing the opportunity to meet anyone really different, which means you are confined in a strange way by the fact that you are getting what you want. And it's your own data creating the prohibition.
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Virginia Dignum · 3rd+ Professor Ethical and Social Artificial Intelligence 3w · Edited
We are hiring two lecturers/associate professors at Umeå University on Responsible AI and human-AI interaction, with focus on but not limited to design for values, ethics, argumentation, verification, impact evaluation or explanation.
Jobs are part of the Responsible AI group (https://lnkd.in/ eJcjH5c) lead by Prof. Dr. Virginia Di[remainder cropped]
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James Brusseau speech
Here's another example. AI channeled me this job announcement by aligning my personal information, my education, career history, connections on the site, my comments, all of it to lock me on a career trajectory. But the better the machine works, the lower my exposure to jobs outside the parameters recommended by my own data. So again, I'm losing opportunities to experiment, to find new things to want, and I'm losing them because I'm always already getting what I want.
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Frame 06 — Personal information, opportunity, and freedom
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Expose your personal information to AI platforms to get the right romantic partner and occupation from the start, but you will never have the freedom to experiment with anyone or anything else.
Only 1 person/occupation in your entire life, but the right one.
Yes or No?
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James Brusseau speech
Let's put this theoretically. Tesla on autopilot was driving down this freeway when a white truck pulled across the road right in front. The AI read the truck's whiteness as a cloud in the blue sky, and the car did not even slow down.
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Frame 08 — Tesla statement over a crash photograph
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TESLA
...the first fatality in over 130 million miles where Tesla’s Autopilot was activated. Among all US vehicles there is a fatality every 94 million miles.
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Frame 09 — National Transportation Safety Board report excerpt
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD OFFICE OF HIGHWAY SAFETY WASHINGTON, D.C.
TECHNICAL RECONSTRUCTION GROUP CHAIRMAN’S FACTUAL REPORT
[…] The vehicle speed was reported at zero at about 4:36:28 PM, just under 16 seconds after the collision with the semitrailer.
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James Brusseau speech
The driver was texting, and in the circle you can see where the trailer sheared off the Tesla top. Beside it, there's the Tesla statement correctly noting that the car is safe statistically. The problem with AI is intellectual schizophrenia. Sometimes superhuman performance but out of the blue there are catastrophic failures at even the most humanly obvious tasks. So faced with this unpredictable unpredictability what counts as safety? Here's another version of the safety dilemma. Would real patients choose the statistically superior AI knives in their own bodies, knowing they could go haywire at any moment like the Tesla crash?
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Frame 10 — Geoffrey Hinton's displayed tweet
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Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton
Suppose you have cancer and you have to choose between a black box AI surgeon that cannot explain how it works but has a 90% cure rate and a human surgeon with an 80% cure rate.
3:37 PM · Feb 20, 2020 · Twitter Web App 1.1K Retweets 613 Quote Tweets 5.2K Likes
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Frame 12 — Presentation title and author
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AI Human Impact Updating ESG Investing for AI-Intensive Companies
James Brusseau Philosophy Pace University, NYC jbrusseau@pace.edu
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James Brusseau speech
Regardless, this is the point. Novel dilemmas are emerging between humans and AI, and we haven't developed tools to manage them. In fact, we're so far behind that the most penetrating explorations in AI ethics today are not being done in academic libraries but in noisy bars in Brooklyn.
The title of this presentation is AI Human Impact, and the proposal is that one way to develop an ethical response to AI is through financial investors. And we have a successful model which is environmental social and governance investing where companies are rated not only in terms of their financial strength, but in terms of their carbon footprint, their global effect on poverty and hunger, and similar human sustainability metrics.
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Frame 13 — Environmental, social, and governance diagram
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ENVIRONMENTAL Considers how a company performs as a steward of nature e.g. Climate Change Energy Emissions Waste Management Resource Depletion
SOCIAL Examines how a company manages its relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the community e.g. Health and Wellbeing Building Safety Employee Relations Diversity Impact on Communities
GOVERNANCE Deals with how a company is governed e.g. Executive Pay Shareholder Rights Board Diversity and Structure Audits
GRESB ES EnviroSustain GmbH
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James Brusseau speech
The problem is that ESG strategies were built for the industrial economy. The digital economy defines the words of human impact differently. The leading challenges are no longer about collectives and their well-being, but individuals wrestling for control of their own personal information and their own lives in the midst of big data machines. So, how would it work?
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Set Principles for Evaluation
AI Human Impact Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, European Council German Data Ethics Commission Autonomy Human agency & oversight Self-determination Dignity Human dignity Privacy Privacy & data governance Privacy Fairness Diversity, non-discrimination, fairness Solidarity Justice & Solidarity Sustainability Societal & environmental wellbeing Sustainability Democracy Performance Safety Technical robustness & safety Security Accountability Accountability Transparency
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First, we need metrics customized to measure the human effects of AI. The set employed here is distilled from the European Council and also from academic ethics. Next, how could they be applied to an AI-intensive company?
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DOI: 10.1109/CISCT.2019.8777442 · Corpus ID: 199057637
Facial Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks and Implementation on Smart Glasses
Suleman Khan, M. R. Javed, Ehtasham Ahmed, S. A. A. Shah, Syed Umaid Ali Published 2019 · Computer Science · 2019 International Conference on Information Science and Communication Technology (ICISCT)
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James Brusseau speech
Say, one blending smart glasses and facial recognition. These glasses let you know about the person who just stepped into your elevator – a celebrity? Pickpocket? Potential client available? With the glasses, you'd know.
James Brusseau speech
But there is a tension. On one side, there's performance – an overlay of knowledge about things and people around you. You see them. On the other side, there's privacy lost. They see you. The result is an AI dilemma about autonomy. Does this AI-intensive product help or harm self-determination? Investors will be able to decide for themselves, they even have a financial interest, if technology serving human autonomy is more likely to succeed in the marketplace.
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Frame 18 — Performance, privacy, and autonomy overlay
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Performance Overlay of knowledge about things and people around you (You see them)
Privacy Loss of control over access to personal information (They see you)
Autonomy? Does this AI-intensive product help or harm self-determination?
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Frame 19 — AI Human Impact scorecard
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AI HUMAN IMPACT Objective evaluations of AI-intensive companies in human terms for investors
Autonomy ? Dignity N/M Privacy -1 Fairness N/M Solidarity N/M Sustainability N/M Performance +1 Safety N/M Accountability N/M
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Here's the company scored ethically on a scale of negative 1-0-1. NM means not material and distinct products and companies will present different salient categories. The larger idea is to delineate the company's ethical profile so it can work alongside traditional financial information.
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AI HUMAN IMPACT Objective evaluations of AI-intensive companies in human terms for investors
Autonomy ? Dignity N/M Privacy -1 Fairness N/M Solidarity N/M Sustainability N/M Performance +1 Safety N/M Accountability N/M
Investors could pressure for answers to get better long term prediction of company value (How users will respond to the product)
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Finally, and besides helping investors make more informed and better decisions, AI human impact also isolates areas where activist investors may want to focus their attention. There remains a lot of work to do.