Businesses need to understand the actions they can take to put ethics into action when adopting new technology.
Almost 70 years before he was immortalised on the £50 bank note, codebreaker and now celebrated computer scientist, Alan Turing, posed one of the most interesting questions ever faced by humankind: can machines think?
Writing from his home in Wilmslow, near Manchester, Turing foresaw what many today consider the most important technological development of the 20th century: the rise of artificial intelligence.
Just a few decades later, AI is everywhere. From analysing legal documents to detecting financial fraud, firms are increasingly using machines and algorithms to transform the way we work.
That leads us to the next big question for mankind: if machines can think, how do we want them to do think? Essentially, how do we get AI ethics right?
For many of us, the word ‘ethics’ can sound esoteric. It conjures images of long-winded philosophical debates, dusty library books and old men musing over glasses of port. But the reality is
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