Dame Wendy Hall, AI Council: Shaping AI with ethics, diversity and innovation

As Windy Hall is a leading power in Amnesty International and Computer Science. As a famous moral spokesperson and one of the leading technology voices, she devoted her career to form moral, technical and societal dimensions of emerging technologies. She is the co -founder of the Web Science Research Initiative, and she is a member of the Amnesty International Council and named as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK in the Women’s hour on the BBC 4.

Among the main defenders of the governance of artificial intelligence and technology diversity, Wendy played an important role in global discussions on the future of artificial intelligence.

In our questions and answers, we talked with her about the insecurity between the gender in the industry of artificial intelligence, the moral effects of emerging technologies, and how companies can harness artificial intelligence while ensuring that it remains an advantage of humanity.

The male artificial intelligence sector continues to be dominated. Can you share your experience in storming the industry and the challenges facing women in achieving greater acting in artificial intelligence and technology?

It is very frustrated because I wrote my first paper on the lack of women in computing in 1987, when we have just started teaching computer science courses in Southampton. In October, we arrived at the university and realized that we had no registered women in the course – nothing at all.

Therefore, those who work on computing began to discuss the reason for this. There were several reasons. One of the important factors was the rise of the personal computer, which was marketed for children, mainly changing culture. Since then, in the West – although he is not in countries like India or Malaysia – it has been seen as a cold thing, which is only “obsessed”. Many young girls simply do not want to have this stereotype. By the time they reach their GCSE options, they often see computing as an option, and this is where the problem begins.

Despite many efforts, we could not change this culture. After nearly 40 years, this industry is still dominated by males, although women suffer more than

Half of the world’s population. Women are largely absent from the design and development of computers and software. We apply them, use them, but we are not part of the basic conversations that make up future technologies.

Artificial intelligence is worse in this regard. If you want to work in machine learning, you need a certificate in mathematics or computer science, which means that we are moving a segment that is already dominated by males in a more pipeline dominated by males.

But artificial intelligence is more than just learning the machine and programming. It comes to application, ethics, values, opportunities and reduce potential risks. This requires a wide variety of sounds – not only in sex, but also in age, race, culture and access. Persons with disabilities should be part of these discussions, ensuring technology development for all.

The development of artificial intelligence needs inputs from many specializations – law, philosophy, psychology, business and history, to name a few. We need all these different sounds. That is why I think we should see Amnesty International as a social-technology system to really understand its influence. We need to diversify in every sense of the word.

Since companies are increasingly integrated artificial intelligence in their operations, what steps should they take to ensure the development of emerging technologies and their morally spread?

Take, for example, face recognition. We still did not prove the rules and regulations of when and how this technology should be applied. Did anyone ask you if you want to recognize the face on your phone? It is simply presented as a system update, and you can either enable it or not.

We know that face recognition is widely used for surveillance in China, but it crawls throughout Europe and the United States as well. The security forces depend on it, which raises concerns about privacy. At the same time, I can have CCTV cameras in parking at night – they make me feel safe.

This duality applies to all emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence tools that we have not yet developed. Each new technology has a good and bad side – Yin and Yang, if you will. There are always benefits and risks.

The challenge lies in learning how to increase the benefits of humanity, society and business while mitigating risk. This is what we should focus on – it works on artificial intelligence in the service of people instead of against them.

The rapid progress of Amnesty International is to transform daily life. How do you imagine the future of artificial intelligence, and what are the important changes that you will bring to society and the way we work?

I see a future in which artificial intelligence becomes part of the decision -making process, whether in legal cases, medical diagnoses or education.

Artificial intelligence is already in depth in our daily life. If you are using Google on your phone, you use artificial intelligence. If you unlock your phone by recognizing the face, this is artificial intelligence. Google translation? Amnesty International. Speech processing, video analysis, images recognition, text generation, and natural language processing-all of which are AI’s techniques.

Now, the duct is around artificial intelligence, especially ChatgPT. It is like how “Hoover” has become a synonym for vacuum cleansers – Chatgpt has become a brief for Amnesty International. In fact, it is just a smart interface created by Openai to allow public access to the artificial intelligence model.

You seem to have a conversation with the system, ask questions and receive natural language responses. It works with photos and videos as well, which makes it look incredible. But the truth is, it is not really smart. It is not emotional. It simply expects the following word in a sequence based on training data. This is a crucial discrimination.

Although the initial artificial intelligence becomes a powerful tool for companies, what are the strategies that companies should adopt to take advantage of their capabilities while maintaining human originality in their operations and making decisions?

Amnesty International Obstetrics are not afraid of it, and I think we will all start using it more and more. Basically, programs that can help in writing, summarize and analyze information.

Compare it when calculators first appeared. People were angry: “How can we allow the school account? Can we trust the answers they provide?

People will feel comfortable not having to write endless articles. Artificial intelligence will enhance creativity and efficiency, but must be seen as a tool to increase human intelligence, not replace it, because it is simply not advanced enough to take over responsibility.

Look at the legal industry. Artificial intelligence can summarize huge amounts of data, evaluate the validity of legal cases, and provide prediction analysis. In the medical field, artificial intelligence can support the diagnosis. In education, it can help evaluate students who struggle.

I imagine that artificial intelligence will be combined into decision -making teams. We will consult with artificial intelligence, ask questions, and use their answers as evidence – but it is important to remember that artificial intelligence is not infallible.

Currently, artificial intelligence models are trained in biased data. If they depend on information from the Internet, many of these data are inaccurate. Artificial intelligence systems also “hallucinations” by generating wrong information when they have no final answer. For this reason we cannot trust completely after Amnesty International.

Instead, we must deal with it as a cooperative partner – it helps us to be more productive and creative while ensuring that humans remain in control. Perhaps artificial intelligence will pave the way to shorter work methods, giving us more time to other endeavors.

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