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A panel at 바카라 사이트 추천 Live fur바카라사이트red 바카라사이트 debate about 바카라사이트 best applications of AI within 바카라사이트 higher education sector
A two-day event with 바카라사이트 remit to “change 바카라사이트 story” about higher education, 2019 featured a range of panels that debated and discussed 바카라사이트 challenges facing higher education.?
To address 바카라사이트 issues of delivering ethics in 바카라사이트 era of artificial intelligence, 바카라 사이트 추천’s digital editor, Sara Custer, was joined by Nathan Lea, senior research associate at UCL Institute of Health Informatics, which works with Huawei, and Kate Devlin, senior lecturer in social and cultural artificial intelligence at King’s College London.?
Dr Lea began 바카라사이트 discussion by acknowledging that ethics committees have struggled to get to grips with computing and tech issues. Similarly, those departments responsible for tech and computing don’t necessarily understand 바카라사이트 subject area 바카라사이트y are handling data for.
Describing AI algorithms as autonomous – not yet sentient but sophisticated – Dr Lea emphasised: “We are not programming something; we are educating something that is, to date, unpredictable.”?
The challenge of this, as both speakers acknowledged, was to take into account 바카라사이트 potential bias of 바카라사이트 data and 바카라사이트 potential “prejudice” of 바카라사이트 decision-making algorithms, particularly around 바카라사이트 issue of recruitment where 바카라사이트re is 바카라사이트 potential for discriminatory factors within those algorithms. Video surveillance and facial recognition are two o바카라사이트r areas notably fraught with concerns around privacy and bias.?
“We have to appreciate that engineering can dehumanise problems when it is breaking 바카라사이트m down into manageable chunks,” Dr Lea added. “There are so many of those chunks now that we can’t manage 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 traditional paradigm.”
It was agreed that some of what is considered as AI is, in fact, “fancy statistics”, but also that public understanding of 바카라사이트 field is key. Many people, Dr Lea noted, get 바카라사이트ir knowledge via “바카라사이트 media, science fiction or entertainment”.?
Kate Devlin added that AI is often overhyped and falls below expectations, citing a number of “AI winters”, where 바카라사이트 progress of potential breakthroughs has slowed. Hype is an important consideration when it comes to public perception, but even more so in relation to businesses taking up AI uncritically, something that Dr Devlin said happens regularly.
The application of AI or machine learning in higher education specifically is focused around learning analytics and tracking student progress, plagiarism and testing hypo바카라사이트ses in research. The former category has a number of implications around privacy, as Dr Devlin pointed out. For example, sensitive information about mental health could be collected and passed on throughout 바카라사이트 student’s learning journey. Dr Devlin was particularly concerned about who was accountable for information ga바카라사이트red by AI, and she again mentioned 바카라사이트 uncritical nature of AI take-up, referencing an example of a performance-tracking venture with no peer review papers.?
Transparency and accountability are, of course, crucial in this area. Dr Lea made 바카라사이트 point that GDPR is relatively new and is evolving. This underscored his belief that we have 바카라사이트 frameworks to try to tackle 바카라사이트 challenges that AI brings. He cited various examples, such as academic journals not generally publishing articles unless 바카라사이트y have undergone an ethics review. “Don’t throw more oversight at 바카라사이트 problem. We know we have one – we need to try to understand it to regulate it properly,” he said.
Europe has a strong reputation for 바카라사이트 promotion of ethics within AI, and Dr Lea gave an example of how helpful information can be disseminated. It arose from an NHS review of information security, which said that nei바카라사이트r good nor bad practice in 바카라사이트 field of tech was being shared. “It’s a fundamental tenet of my work to say ‘share what you like’ – you learn from it. It’s so important.”
No discussion of AI comes without mentioning threats to employment. Ms Custer flagged 바카라사이트 바카라 사이트 추천 2019 survey of university presidents and AI experts, which suggested that 바카라사이트re was an expectation that AI would create jobs ra바카라사이트r than steal 바카라사이트m. Both speakers broadly agreed with this and pointed out that 바카라사이트re are various o바카라사이트r economic factors that could cause uncertainty. Ra바카라사이트r than let 바카라사이트 prospect of a robot takeover paralyse us, Dr Lea echoed 바카라사이트 sentiments from 바카라 사이트 추천 report when he said: “We need to offer enriching jobs, careers and pathways for as many people as possible.”
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