Business Ethics 4

Are we going to working for smart machines

or will we have smart people around the machine?

Ancient Greece to today

2500 years

Philosophy to Big Data

Lightening revolution

Types of AI

• based on capabilities

• based on functionalities

Ai Based on Capabilities

• narrow ai

• super ai

• general ai

AI Based on Functionalities

• reactive machine > limited memory

• self-awareness > theory of mind

Dont exist

• systems w/conscious

• ability to understand human emotions

Does exist

• ai with no memory, task specific 

• uses recent data to train decisions

Narrow AI

Systems w/no memory, task specific

Super Ai

AI that can understand and learn any intellectual task that a human can.

General Ai

ai that could surpass human intelligence + perform better than human at any task

Traditional (Narrow/Weak) AI

focus on performing specific task intelligently, learn/make decision based on data

Generative AI

trained on data set and learn underlying patterns to generate new data that mirrors training set

AI we use right now is mostly just

math

Clopening

• Same employees closing and opening

• starbucks example

Big data & labor

businesses can analyze customer traffic and calc exact # of employees they need > bare minimum, low cost

Surveillance Capitalism 

• human experience as free raw material that becomes behavioral data

• some data used for product/service improvement

• rest of data as behavioral surplus fed to machine intelligenc

Prediction Products

Anticipate what you will do now, soon, or later based on behavioral data

Instrumentarian Power

• knows and shapes human behavior toward’s others’ ends

• works thru automated medium

Surveillance Capitalism reality

• Strips illusion of early digital dream

• “connection” as not intrinsically pro-social, inclusion, or helping democratization of knowledge

Ethical dilemma of self-driving cars

How should we assign blame for acts and decisions made by autonomous machines/ai? 

Causal Responsibility

If Agent A is causally responsible for Event

E, then it is because A performed an action or omission that caused E.

Main Question about Causal Responsibility

If someone who is causally responsible also necessarily morally responsible ?

Additional Questions about Causal Responsibility

• what if you had no free will?

• what if you were mentally/physically incapable of choosing?

• what abt losing your job?

• what about child/animal?

• what about machine/algorithm?

Moral Responsibility

Also includes causal responsibility and knowingly and willingly performed the action or omission to cause E.

Question about Moral Responsibility

Is it only meaningful to hold someone morally responsible if they could have done otherwise, that is if they had a choice?

To be Morally Responsible, you must be

• causally responsible

• have choice

• able to understand objective/subjective consequences of actions

• able to understand moral principles

NYT suing OpenAI and Microsoft

over ai use of copyrighted work for ai training

Why AI models might be used according to companies

“supplement” representation in size, skin tone, and age

8 Ethical Qs in AI

1. bias: is ai fair?

2. liability: who is liable for ai?

3. legal: what are legal copyright/ownership laws for ia?

4.  security: how do we protect access to ai from bad actors?

5. human interaction:will we stop talking to one another?

6. employment:  is ai getting rid of jobs?

7. wealth inequality: who benefits?

8. power and control: who desides how to deploy ai?

9. robot rights: can ai suffer?

Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization

Trend Forecasting and Design Ideation

Virtual Sampling, 3D Design, Digital Prototyping

AI-Generated Marketing/Imagery/Modeling

Recycling, Sorting and Circular Fashion Systems

Changing meanings of words

like “search” and “like”