Using artificial intelligence in sensitive areas like criminal justice and healthcare should be regulated.
That’s one takeaway from a report by the AI Now Institute, a research group affiliated with New York University, that looks at the cutting-edge technology’s impact on society. The researchers fear scenarios in which governments and companies use AI technologies to constantly monitor certain populations or unfairly discriminate against some communities, among other situations.
The report, released on Thursday, comes as machine learning technologies are increasingly used to crunch vast amounts of data, including at Google, which taps it for chores like automatically recognizing dogs in photos. But the technology also raises a number of ethical concerns.
