Ethical Machines, Reid Blackman
Ethical Machines, Reid Blackman
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Ethical Machines
Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI

Author: Reid Blackman

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 09/20/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates risk at scale. Are you prepared for that risk?

Already, many companies have suffered real damage when their algorithms led to discriminatory, privacy-invading, and even deadly outcomes. Self-driving cars have hit pedestrians; HR algorithms have precluded women from job searches; mortgage systems have denied loans to qualified minorities. And often the companies who deployed the AI couldn't explain why the black box made the decision it did.

In Ethical Machines, Reid Blackman gives you all you need to understand AI ethics as a risk management challenge. He'll help you build, procure, and deploy AI in a way that's not only ethical but also safe in terms of your organization's reputation, regulatory compliance, and legal standing—and do it at scale. And don't worry—the book's purpose is to get work done, not to ponder deep and existential questions about ethics and technology. Blackman's clear and accessible writing helps make a complex and often misunderstood concept like ethics easy to grasp. Most importantly, Blackman makes ethics actionable by tackling the big three ethical risks with AI—bias, explainability, and privacy—and tells you what to do (and what not to do) to mitigate them.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan

Ethical Machines is an at times tedious, but nonetheless rewarding read. Author Reed Blackmon does his level best to make the topic upbeat and readable without bloating the text with unnecessary fluff. But the subject is at base, difficult. And although Reed does a commendable job. He’s only mortal.......more

Goodreads review by Takuya

As a big advocate of humane technology, I found this book particularly useful thanks to the balance between theory (”Content”; ethical implications on bias, explainability, and privacy) and practice (”Structure”; implementing AI ethical risk mitigation program in business). Specifically, I like the......more

Goodreads review by Mae

Eventhough machine learning was developed in the 1950s, it needs processing power and wide availability of data. Now machines have a lot of data to learn from. Need the machine to process the context and how to interpret the data. Not all data are equal or accurate. Machine will take on your human be......more

Goodreads review by Sanjeev

This is a wonderful book about AI Ethics. The author of the book has been discussing the philosophy of Ethics for more than 20 years at the writing of the book and it shows. The book is a short treatise on how executives can add AI ethics to their corporate goals. There are many points to consider an......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel

O título do livro é enganoso (e isso PODE ser bom). Não espere que o livro apresente detalhes técnicos sobre questões técnicas de como aferir questões éticas relacionadas a algoritmos, IA ou robótica. Ao invés disso, o livro foca em questões mais relacionadas à epistemologia e aplicações práticas da......more