[Air-L] State of AI Ethics October 2020 Report

[Abhishek Gupta]

Hi!

I'm Abhishek Gupta, the Founder and Principal Researcher at the Montreal AI
Ethics Institute <https://montrealethics.ai/> (MAIEI) which is an
international, non-profit research institute that is focused on tangible
and applied technical and policy research in the creation of ethical, safe,
and inclusive AI systems.

MAIEI is releasing the State of AI Ethics October 2020 Report
<https://montrealethics.ai/oct2020/> which captures the most relevant
developments in Q3 2020 in the domain of AI ethics across academia, civil
society, government, and industry. The report has reflections from scholars
in this domain from Partnership on AI, United Nations, OECD, US State
Department, MIT, Accenture, AI Now Institute, and more.

The report covers the following areas:

   1. AI & Society (*highlight: *Roles for Computing in Social Change)
   2. Bias & Algorithmic Injustice (*highlight: *Undress of Fail)
   3. Disinformation (*highlight: *Lexicon of Lies)
   4. Humans & AI (*highlight: *Learning to Complement Humans)
   5. Labor Impacts (*highlight: *Protecting the Essential Workers of the
   Data Supply Chain)
   6. Privacy (*highlight: *Purgatory of Digital Punishment)
   7. Risk (*highlight: *Evasion Attacks Against Machine Learning at Test
   Time)
   8. Future of AI Ethics (*highlight: *Social Work Thinking for UX and AI
   Design)
   9. Outside the Boxes (*highlight: *Trust and Transparency in Contact
   Tracing Applications)

This time, the report includes exclusive content written by world-class AI
Ethics experts from a diversity of organizations including universities,
research institutes, consulting firms, and government:

   - Danit Gal (Tech Advisor, United Nations)
   - Amba Kak (Director of Global Policy & Programs, NYU's AI Now Institute)
   - Rumman Chowdhury (Global Lead for Responsible AI, Accenture)
   - Brent Barron (Director of Strategic Projects & Knowledge Management,
   CIFAR)
   - Adam Murray (U.S. Diplomat working on tech policy, Chair of the OECD
   Network on AI)
   - Thomas Kochan (Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management)
   - Katya Klinova (AI & Economy Program Lead, Partnership on AI)


Would you be open to taking a look through the report? I believe that given
the focus of this list, the report will be of interest to you.

*It would be even more amazing if you could share the report with your
network which would give a larger audience to this report.*

I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have on this, I look
forward to hearing back from you!

Thanks!

Abhishek Gupta
Founder and Principal Researcher, Montreal AI Ethics Institute
<https://montrealethics.ai>
Machine Learning Engineer and CSE Responsible AI Board Member, Microsoft
Learn more about my work here <https://atg-abhishek.github.io>.