{"id":4851,"date":"2018-10-31T15:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T15:34:43","slug":"big-data-and-ai-ethical-and-societal-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/big-data-and-ai-ethical-and-societal-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data and AI&#8211;\u00a0Ethical and Societal implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Are computer system designers (i.e. Software Developers, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, etc,), the ones who will decide what the impact of these technologies are and whether to replace or augment humans in society?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big Data, AI and Intelligent systems are becoming sophisticated tools in the hands of a variety of stakeholders, including political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Some AI applications may raise new ethical and legal questions, for example related to liability or potentially biased decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>I recently gave a talk at UC Berkeley on the Ethical and Societal implications of Big Data and AI and <strong>what designers of intelligent systems can do to take responsibility<\/strong>, not only for policy makers and lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>You can find copy of the presentation here:\u00a0<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.odbms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zicari.UCBerkeley.2018.pdf');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.odbms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zicari.UCBerkeley.2018.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.odbms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zicari.UCBerkeley.2018.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am interested to hear from you and receive your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>RVZ<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are computer system designers (i.e. Software Developers, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, etc,), the ones who will decide what the impact of these technologies are and whether to replace or augment humans in society? Big Data, AI and Intelligent systems are becoming sophisticated tools in the hands of a variety of stakeholders, including political [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,881,66,67,748,1329,1328,1183,1248,350,507,1096,1326,1327,1330,1095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odbms.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}