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1.preface
2.why se 4 ai?
3.tools
4.ethics: how

Tools

baselines
Data mining:
discretization
basic
advanced
Optimizers:
landscapes
basic
advanced
optimizing+data mining
Theorem provers:
basic
advanced

Process

requirements
collect
cleanse
label
train
eval
deploy
monitor

Code

config
tests

Exercises

1
2
3a
3b
3c
3d
4

Quiz 1

One
Two
Three

One

According to Fatma Aydemir and Fabiano Dalpiaz listed numerous ethical issues, softare developers face numerous ethical choices in their day-to-day work:

Privacy: Handling, storing, sharing user data only under the circumstances and for the purposes that the user sets
Sustainability: Energy consumption of the software artifact, caring about energy throughout the SE process and in the documentation
Transparency: Transparent decision-making procedures of intelligent systems, publicly available ethics policies by software development organizations
Diversity: Gender, race, and age distribution of professionals in a development team
Work ethics: Decisions on which bugs to fix and how quickly, ensuring quality of the code before release
Business ethics: Informing users of a changed business model, including revenue models
Accountability: Who should be held responsible for the harm caused by software?
Dependability: Decision to maintain and/or keep a software product in the market
Common goods: Contributing to, using, promoting open source software

Pick any two of the above areas. For each area, write 2 or 3 lines about how a software developers could make:

An ethically positive decision in that area.
An ethically negative decision in that area.

Two

Suppose you decide that, ethically, you should produce software that:

consumes limited energy;
which produces models that humans can read, understand, and audit;
which keeps human data safely secure.

Within that ethical context, list two design choices that are ethically positive. Justify your conclusion (using 2-3 lines of text).

Repeat this exercise, this time for ethically negative choices.

Three

The Institute for Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) has discussed general principles for implementing autonomous and intelligent systems (A/IS). The IEEE makes the following points about A/IS:

Human Rights: A/IS shall be created and operated to respect, promote, and protect internationally recognized human rights.
Well-being: A/IS creators shall adopt increased human well-being as a primary success criterion for development.
Data Agency: A/IS creators shall empower individuals with the ability to access and securely share their data, to maintain people’s capacity to have control over their identity.
Effectiveness: A/IS creators and operators shall provide evidence of the effectiveness and fitness for purpose of A/IS.
Transparency: The basis of a particular A/IS decision should always be discoverable.
Accountability: A/IS shall be created and operated to provide an unambiguous rationale for all decisions made.
Awareness of Misuse: A/IS creators shall guard against all potential misuses and risks of A/IS in operation.
Competence: A/IS creators shall specify and operators shall adhere to the knowledge and skill required for safe and effective operation.

Other organizations, like Microsoft offer their own principles for AI:

Transparency AI systems should be understandable
Fairness: AI systems should treat all people fairly
Inclusiveness AI systems should empower everyone and engage people
Reliability & Safety AI systems should perform reliably and safely
Privacy & Security: AI systems should be secure and respect privacy
Accountability: AI systems should have algorithmic accountability

Draw a diagram that maps the IEEE guidelines into the Microsoft. Label each edge. Write one sentence justifying each edge.

Note: there is no right answer for this one. Ethics is an evolving field; evidence: the Aydemir and Dalpiaz list is different to the IEEE and Microsoft list. One way we speed that evolution is to think hard about how all these terms connect.