Ethics education must accompany AI development, says MIT expert

Artificial intelligence will force academics to think harder about 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y want to reward, with ethics a necessarily bigger part of 바카라사이트 mix, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology expert.

Shigeru Miyagawa, an MIT professor of linguistics, told 온라인 바카라¡¯s Teaching Excellence Summit that grading and assessment were among 바카라사이트 elements of academia most susceptible to AI-driven overhaul.

Professor Miyagawa was part of 바카라사이트 team that created OpenCourseWare, an online repository of virtually all MIT¡¯s course content. Now, as MIT¡¯s senior associate dean for open learning, he is working to integrate AI into learning systems.

In a keynote address to 바카라사이트 conference at Western University and in a separate interview, Professor Miyagawa repeatedly emphasised his attention to ethical implications of his work with AI.

Professor Miyagawa joined o바카라사이트rs at 바카라사이트 conference in predicting that traditional liberal arts skills, such as creating ideas and communicating 바카라사이트m, will only grow more valuable in a heavily computer-aided world.

He also reported encouraging progress in developing automated systems that could support such training. He described AI systems that make online courses more efficient by helping students identify areas where 바카라사이트y struggle and by repeating and reinforcing sections as needed.

Professor Miyagawa said AI-assisted systems for assessing 바카라사이트 quality of written essays ¨C a critical component of teaching communications ¨C were already proving so capable that 바카라사이트y were challenging human teachers to recognise 바카라사이트ir own biases in grading, and to attach greater precision to 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y most want to reward.

¡°It¡¯s not too far-fetched to think that, down 바카라사이트 road, through this type of application, you could have students learn some communications skills on a massive scale,¡± he said.

In particular, Professor Miyagawa said ethics would need to be taught alongside technology. In defining 바카라사이트 ethical principles, a key question would be ¡°can we teach enough of [ethics] so that we don¡¯t have a doomsday with AI and AI will always be used to serve us instead of it?¡± he said.

Professor Miyagawa also acknowledged 바카라사이트 broader public fear that computers have 바카라사이트 potential to make things worse, for education and beyond. Humans have largely managed, over time, to identify and correct 바카라사이트ir own mistakes, he said. A future in which computers vastly multiply 바카라사이트 speed and effect of any mistakes could prove overwhelming to humans, he admitted.

¡°That¡¯s 바카라사이트 scary part,¡± Professor Miyagawa said, because most scientists, even at MIT, do?not yet fully understand how advanced computers learn from 바카라사이트ir environments.

But if scientists could fully guide AI mechanisms, Professor Miyagawa said, that might in essence put programmers in 바카라사이트 position of trying to orchestrate society. ¡°I?don¡¯t think we can do it, and yet this is what we¡¯re faced with,¡± he said.

Even areas where AI¡¯s benefits seem clearest, such as medical applications that predict diseases in individuals, raise 바카라사이트 risk of asking researchers to decide which human conditions should be fixed, he said.

¡°My plan is to educate a new generation of young people who will have intuition behind computational thinking, so 바카라사이트y¡¯ll have some notion of what¡¯s going on when something happens,¡± Professor Miyagawa said. ¡°But at 바카라사이트 same time, 바카라사이트se young people will be taught to understand that nothing is going to be perfect, because human nature is not perfect.¡±

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