[Air-L] AI Now 2018 Report

[Sarah Myers West]

Hi All,

Today the AI Now Institute published our *third annual report
<https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2018_Report.html>* on the state of AI in
2018, including 10 recommendations for governments, researchers, and
industry practitioners. The AoIR community has been thinking deeply through
these issues, and we're excited to share this work with you (many of whom
are cited in the report!).

   - Read the Report (PDF)
   <https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2018_Report.html>
   - See the Recommendations
   <https://medium.com/@AINowInstitute/after-a-year-of-tech-scandals-our-10-recommendations-for-ai-95b3b2c5e5>


It has been a dramatic year in AI
<https://medium.com/@AINowInstitute/ai-in-2018-a-year-in-review-8b161ead2b4e>.
>From Facebook potentially inciting ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, to
Cambridge Analytica seeking to manipulate elections, to Google building a
secret censored search engine for the Chinese, to anger over Microsoft
contracts with ICE, to multiple worker uprisings over conditions Amazon’s
algorithmically managed warehouses – the headlines haven’t stopped. And
these are just a few examples among hundreds.

At the core of these cascading AI scandals are questions of accountability:
who is responsible when AI systems harm us? How do we understand these
harms, and how do we remedy them? Where are the points of intervention, and
what additional research and regulation is needed to ensure those
interventions are effective? Currently there are few answers to these
questions, and existing regulatory frameworks fall well short of what’s
needed. As the pervasiveness, complexity, and scale of these systems grow,
this lack of meaningful accountability and oversight – including basic
safeguards of responsibility, liability, and due process – is an
increasingly urgent concern.

Building on our 2016 <https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2016_Report.html>
 and 2017 <https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2017_Report.html> reports, the AI
Now 2018 Report <https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2018_Report.html> contends
with this central problem, and provides 10 practical recommendations that
can help create accountability frameworks capable of governing these
powerful technologies.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts!

Best,

Sarah

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*Dr. Sarah Myers West*
Postdoctoral Researcher
AI Now Institute
New York University
sarah at ainowinstitute.org | @sarahbmyers