Artificial Intelligence : AI Ethics

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AI Ethics: What It Is and Why It Matters
"AI ethics are the set of guiding principles that stakeholders (from engineers to government officials) use to ensure artificial intelligence technology is developed and used responsibly." ... more 
 

Generative AI Ethics: AI Risks, Benefits, and Best Practices
"Generative AI programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot are great tools for increasing your productivity or innovating new solutions at scale. Yet, as society rapidly integrates generative AI into many personal and professional tasks, developers, businesses, lawmakers, AI ethicists, and general users have a stake in what is considered ethical or unethical in using generative AI." ... more

How to Use AI Responsibly?

Evaluate output to see if it meets your need Verify facts and figures to avoid any bias. Edit your prompt to improve the final outputs.  Revise the results to reflect your own tone. Keep in mind that you are responsible for everything you create in AI. Image created by AI for Education

As an individual user, the ethical use of generative AI involve several components that you need to consider.

• Bias: Generative AI is known to produce bias. 
• Reliability: Some AI models can produce false responses (hallucinations), which can then lead to disinformation. 
• Prompting: The way you phrase your research question or prompt in the AI tool can lead to varied responses and greatly influence the quality of the outputs.
• Privacy: Most AI models require an account to use their site even if it is free.
• Copyright: The content generated by AI tools may inadvertently reproduce copyrighted material

* Components adapted from "Ethics of AI for Researchers" guide from University of Arizona Libraries
 

Ethics in Technology is one of themes of the ​​​The Mohammad Atallah Chair for Ethics at AUB. 
Technological advancements have always carried with them serious moral and political challenges. This is pertinently so for recent innovations in digital technology and artificial intelligence.

The Mohammad Atallah Chair for Ethics aims at exploring the moral questions posed by these innovations through providing platforms for relevant discussions, debates, and research. ​...  more.