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Bishop of Oxford offers five key questions for public policy on Artificial Intelligence
11 May 2021The ethical complexity of new technologies can seem overwhelming to the general public and to policy makers.The Lord Bishop of Oxford, speaking at an All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence last night, challenged three myths about AI and offered five key questions for keeping ethics at the centre of the government's AI strategy , announced earlier this year. There is huge potential for good, says the bishop.
But there is a very real tension between AI as a driver for economic growth alone and AI technologies for the common good.
The next decade will determine whether society is capable of distributing the benefits of AI fairly.
Three AI myths to bust:
That ethics and innovation are somehow alternatives; That the ethics is done when the rhetoric is right; That ethics can ever be adequate without external and independent scrutiny.Five questions every decision maker should ask about Artificial Intelligence:
What is the place of ethics in the development and implementation of AI strategy? Is there an adequate vision of the potential of AI for the good of all? Are the ethical answers we give in deploying new technologies consistent with our wider ethical understanding as a society? How will society continue to debate the ethical consequences of new technologies - both direct and indirect? What are the consequences of artificial intelligence for our humanity? The Bishop is available for comment or interview.Please contact Steven Buckley on 07824 906 839 or email steven. buckley@oxford. anglican. org to arrange.
Read Bishop Steven's blog posts about Artificial Intelligence.
Listen to Bishop Steven talking on the #BigTechPodcast about keeping humanity at the centre of new technology.
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