AI Ethics - Ben Schneiderman

I'll probably remember most the simple statement that AI and machine learning are essentially statistical models. A lot of people look at AI as this magical new technology that we have never had before, but we've always been modeling things based on trends; the difference now is that (as they said) we can use so much more data and use it to draw previously unseen connections.

Something that I think will be deeply influentual in the future is AI ethics. They mentioned in the interview that some AI models have certain implicit biases, which is an incredibly important thing to keep in mind when using AI for hiring strategies or other decision making processes. Additionally, ethics regarding the AI itself could become a contentious issue in the far future when AI themselves may or may not have rights. Should thinking being, but a machine rather than a person, in the same way that we are as humans?