"With great power comes great responsibility," the well-known adage from the Marvel series Spiderman keeps coming to mind as we at 2600Hz have started implementing AI into our platform KAZOO.
As all of us know, the big tech AI announcements have been both exciting and terrifying. With this new powerful tech emerging, the benefits are numerous and significant. The application of AI can help "organizations operate more efficiently, produce cleaner products, reduce harmful environmental impacts, increase public safety, and improve human health."
If AI is used unethically, such as "disinformation, deception, human abuse, or political suppression – AI can cause severe deleterious effects for individuals, the environment, and society." Ethical AI is artificial intelligence research and implementation that adheres to well-defined ethical guidelines regarding fundamental values, including such things as individual rights, privacy, non-discrimination, and non-manipulation and aims to ensure that AI systems are designed to benefit society and promote human welfare. It also seeks to prevent harm and ensure that AI systems are transparent and accountable.
As Mark Surman, President of Mozilla Foundation said, "Really exciting new tech is emerging — new tools that have immediately sparked artists, founders…all kinds of people to do new things. The anxiety comes when you realize almost no one is looking at the guardrails.”
Who is responsible for these guardrails of ethical AI is a question many of us are asking. Taking this responsibility and this incredible technology into our own hands, Team 2600Hz is committing to accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, and trustworthy AI development.
As we implement Generative AI into our platform KAZOO, there are several ethical principles that will guide the development and use of AI. These include:
- Fairness: AI systems should be designed to treat all individuals fairly, without bias or discrimination. This includes ensuring that AI systems do not perpetuate or amplify existing inequalities.
- Transparency: AI systems should be designed to be transparent, so that users can understand how they work and the data that is used to train them. This includes providing clear explanations of how AI systems make decisions and what data is used to inform those decisions.
- Privacy: AI systems should be designed to protect individuals' privacy and personal data. This includes ensuring that personal data is only collected and used for legitimate purposes, and that individuals have control over their data.
- Accountability: AI systems should be designed to be accountable, so that developers and users can be held responsible for the actions of AI systems. This includes ensuring that AI systems are auditable, so that their decision-making processes can be reviewed
and assessed. - Safety: AI systems should be designed to be safe, so that they do not cause harm to individuals or society. This includes ensuring that AI systems are secure and reliable, and that they are tested and evaluated to ensure that they do not pose a risk to human life or well-being.
We know ethical AI is essential for ensuring that AI is developed and used in a way that benefits society and promotes human welfare. By adhering to ethical principles and involving a diverse range of stakeholders in the development process, we can ensure that AI is designed to be fair, transparent, private, accountable, and safe.
As 2600Hz continues to lead the way in innovative telecommunications solutions, we will ensure that our implementation of AI is developed and used in a way that benefits telecommunications by streamlining customer experience, automating the drudgery so agents can focus on harder problems, and creating conversational agents for both chat and voice. Responsibly harnessing the power of generative AI will beneficially transform the telecom industry.
