A reminder that my chart The Elements of AI Ethics is available as a free PDF download. Use it as a reference and guide in teaching, evaluations, risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
I’m currently also producing a ’worksheet for AI trials in the workplace’ as I’m hearing of many organisations experimenting with generative AI without really documenting expected and real learnings and outcomes. I expect to publish it by next week.
The harmful effects of technology can be managed and mitigated. But not if we do not talk about them. Nor if we allow ourselves to be misled to focus on misleading narratives. In the chart The Elements of AI Ethics I map out harms that we are already seeing reports of, that have been ongoing and many of which were predicted before they happened. As a tool it can provide guidance and talking points for understanding how to prioritise your work with "smart" tools, and acknowledge that all teams that deploy or make use of AI need a mitigation strategy for many different types of harms.
This chart builds on The Elements of Digital Ethics (2021). The harms in the original diagram are all still relevant, and what this chart does is provide a focused overview of the types of harm we are seeing proliferate with the ongoing advancement of AI within different industries, and especially general-purpose and generative tools. You can refer to the original chart to get an idea of how a tool like this can be used in education and project work.