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

Book Description

What will you do when your AI misbehaves?

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 this environment, AI ethics isn’t merely an academic curiosity, it’s a business necessity. 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.

With practical approaches to everything from writing a strong statement of AI ethics principles to creating teams that effectively evaluate ethical risks, Ethical Machines is the one guide you need to ensure your AI advances your company’s objectives instead of undermining them.

中文：

书名：伦理机器：完全公正、透明和尊重人工智能的简明指南

当你的人工智能行为不端时，你会怎么做？

人工智能的前景是大规模的自动决策，但这意味着人工智能也会使大规模的风险自动化。你为这种风险做好准备了吗？

许多公司已经遭受了真正的损害，因为他们的算法导致了歧视、侵犯隐私，甚至是致命的结果。自动驾驶汽车撞上了行人；人力资源算法禁止女性寻找工作；抵押贷款系统拒绝向符合条件的少数族裔提供贷款。而且，部署人工智能的公司往往无法解释为什么黑匣子会做出这样的决定。

在这种环境下，人工智能伦理不仅是学术上的奇闻异事，也是商业上的必然。在《道德机器》中，里德·布莱克曼为你提供了理解人工智能道德作为风险管理挑战所需的一切。他将帮助您构建、采购和部署人工智能，使其不仅符合道德规范，而且在您的组织的声誉、合规性和法律地位方面也是安全的–而且是规模化的。

别担心–这本书的目的是完成工作，而不是思考关于伦理和技术的深层次和存在主义的问题。布莱克曼清晰易懂的写作有助于使伦理学等复杂且经常被误解的概念易于理解。最重要的是，Blackman通过解决人工智能的三大道德风险-偏见、可解释性和隐私-使道德变得可操作，并告诉你应该做什么(以及不应该做什么)来缓解这些风险。

从撰写一份强有力的人工智能伦理原则声明，到创建有效评估道德风险的团队，从撰写一份强有力的人工智能伦理原则声明到创建有效评估伦理风险的团队，《伦理机器》是你需要的一个指南，以确保你的人工智能推进你公司的目标，而不是破坏它们。