Tag: ethics
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Focus on designing valid assessments
Assessment validity is more important than cheating in higher education. This post presents a position paper arguing that focusing on valid assessments addresses cheating without moralising. It suggests that anti-cheating measures can sometimes harm validity and inclusion. We should emphasize the importance of ensuring graduates can demonstrate the capabilities our assessments claim to measure, rather…
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BIP AI – AI in research: Opportunities and challenges
In this Blended Intensive Programme on AI, Guillem Jabardo and I explore the potential of generative AI to support all stages of the research process. However, while extremely powerful, these tools still have limitations, necessitating critical review. The ability of generative AI to augment human cognition represents a paradigm shift for academia.
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BIP in Digital Health – Responsible use of digital health technologies
In this Blended Intensive Programme in Digital Health, Joost van Wijchen and I discussed responsible digital health technologies, focusing on security, regulatory, and ethical considerations, and Good Clinical Practice guidelines. We also discussed challenges in physiotherapy education and practice, emphasising the importance of proactively addressing risks and harnessing the benefits of digital health innovations.
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Link: Ethical guidelines for generative AI in research
Lin, Z. (2024). Building ethical guidelines for generative AI in scientific research. Arxiv. This paper offers an initial framework by developing analyses and mitigation strategies across five key themes: understanding model limitations regarding truthfulness and bias; respecting privacy, confidentiality, and copyright; avoiding plagiarism and policy violations when incorporating model output; ensuring applications provide overall benefit;…
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AI assistants will be everywhere
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-ai-haunted-world “In the near future, AIs will work in their own hierarchies of intelligence, all communicating with each other, perhaps mostly autonomously. If you want to grab a bite to eat, it may be that your more “intelligent” premium AI assistant can guess what restaurant you might like based on reasoning about you and your…
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On the ethics concerns around requiring students to use AI
Note: I wrote this over the course of a busy day full of meetings. At the end of the day I just wanted to get it out there. I’m not sure that I’m fully on board with the arguments, but the thing that I love about blogs is that it doesn’t matter. So these are…
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Workshopping AI in higher education with students
I’m thinking about contributing to a workshop activity that involves students working on practical issues related to the implementation of AI-based services in higher education. Here are some ideas that I think might be worth exploring.
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Generative AI is useful
in AIGenerative AI is useful, in the same way that electricity is useful. I use Claude for a wide range of tasks, every day. And today is the worst that Claude will ever be. Claude – and other generative AI services – will never ever again be as crap as it is today. Make no mistake,…
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Taylor and Francis clarifies their position on the use of AI for academic content creation
https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/taylor-francis-clarifies-the-responsible-use-of-ai-tools-in-academic-content-creation/ “Taylor & Francis recognizes the increased use of AI tools in academic research. As the world’s leading publisher of human-centered science, we consider that such tools, where used appropriately and responsibly, have the potential to augment research outputs and thus foster progress through knowledge.” They go on to say: “…AI tools must not be…
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With great power comes great ambiguity – ENPHE conference
I was invited to give a keynote address at the 2023 ENPHE conference, on the topic of AI in health professions education, I used the metaphor of the antihero to emphasise the complex ethical implications of this technology. By rejecting simplistic views of AI as solely beneficial or harmful, I advocate for nuanced human-machine partnerships.…
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Weekly digest (26 Jun – 02 Jul 2023)
I’ve been thinking a lot about practical guidance for academics who are feeling disoriented by ChatGPT and other language models. Some recognise there’s no getting away from this, and are actively experimenting with the technology to try and understand it better. Even if they’re not embracing LLMs with a happy heart, they can see we…
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Podcast – Being Good and Doing Good (Making Sense #44)
https://samharris.org/podcasts/being-good-and-doing-good/ In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Oxford philosopher William MacAskill about effective altruism, moral illusions, existential risk, and other topics. William MacAskill is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was educated at Cambridge, Princeton, and Oxford. He is one of the primary voices in…
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PSA: Peter Singer’s “The life you can save” is available for free
In 2009, Peter Singer wrote the first edition of The Life You Can Save to demonstrate why we should care about and help those living in global extreme poverty, and how easy it is to improve and even save lives by giving effectively. This morning I listened to an 80 000 hours podcast with Peter…
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Comment: Will robots have rights in the future?
If we get to create robots that are also capable of feeling pain then that will be somewhere else that we have to push the circle of moral concern backwards because I certainly think we would have to include them in our moral concern once we’ve actually created beings with capacities, desires, wants, enjoyments, miseries…
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Comment: Self-driving Mercedes will be programmed to sacrifice pedestrians to save the driver.
As we dig deeper, it seems that the problems faced by driverless cars and by human drivers are much the same. We try to avoid crashes and collisions, and we have to make split-second decisions when we can’t. Those decisions are governed by our programming and experience. The differences are that computers can think a…
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Comment: How Can AI Systems Understand Human Values?
…for ML systems to truly be successful, they need to understand human values. More to the point, they need to be able to weigh our competing desires and demands, understand what outcomes we value most, and act accordingly. Creighton, J. (2019). How Can AI Systems Understand Human Values? The Future of LIfe Institute blog. This…
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Podcast – Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell’s newest work, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, is a cornerstone piece, alongside Superintelligence and Life 3.0, that articulates the civilization-scale problem we face of aligning machine intelligence with human goals and values. Not only is this a further articulation and development of the AI alignment problem, but Stuart also…
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Comment: ‘Robots’ Are Not ‘Coming for Your Job’—Management Is
We – people – make decisions that influence where we’re going and to some extent, where we end up is evidence of what we value as a society.
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Summary: OECD Principles on AI
The OECD has recently published a set of recommendations that aim to promote the development of AI that respects human rights and democratic values.