Ethics & Social Responsibility Stage

SignalFire, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm, is raising two new funds: a seed/small A fund and a later stage fund

There are some deeper-seated considerations we need to address, though. AI, for example, is only as good as the data sets it learns from, and the data we have are reflective of the world as it is rather than of how we’d wish it to be. We run the real risk of permanently cementing today’s biases and other inequities if we don’t take real steps to address this.

Timnit Gebru, Research Scientist in the Ethical AI Team at Google, discusses the effects of bias in artificial intelligence. Timnit shares with Bloomberg that "we can try to mitigate bias and we can try to mitigate the effects of bias".

Researchers such as Abhishek Gupta are trying to help Montreal lead the world in ensuring AI is developed responsibly. His bi-monthly "AI ethics meet-up" brings together people from around the city who want to influence the way researchers are thinking about machine-learning.

Aira was listed as one of TIME's Best Inventions in 2018. Read more here to discover how Aira uses AI to empower the blind community

Northern Illinois University’s David Gunkel, in his recent book, asks provocative questions about the accountability and social standing of robots in the future.