Why Voluntary AI Standards Are Not Enough

AI ethics is not a constraint on innovation. It is a quality standard for innovation. An AI system that produces biased outcomes, violates privacy, or makes unexplainable decisions is not a good system that happens to be unethical. It is a bad system. The fundamental...

AI Literacy as a Human Right

AI ethics is not a constraint on innovation. It is a quality standard for innovation. An AI system that produces biased outcomes, violates privacy, or makes unexplainable decisions is not a good system that happens to be unethical. It is a bad system. The gap between...

The Ethics of AI-Generated Personas in Marketing

The gap between ethical intention and ethical outcome is bridged by process, not aspiration. Organizations that have ethical AI principles but no ethical AI processes have principles in name only. When we talk about AI ethics, we are really talking about power: who...

AI and Distributive Justice: Who Gets the Benefits?

The fundamental challenge of AI ethics is not knowing what is right. It is building organizations that consistently do what is right when doing so is inconvenient, expensive, or slow. Ethics is easy in the abstract. It is difficult in the quarterly planning meeting....