The Ethics Council recommends separate specifications for AI by area

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In principle, artificial intelligence should “increase human development, not diminish it,” said the chair of the committee, Alena Buyx, at the presentation of a statement from the German Ethics Council. “AI should not replace humans.”

A working group of the Ethics Council has been preparing the statement “Humans and Machines – Challenges from Artificial Intelligence” for the past two years. The nearly 300-page statement covers four areas of application: medicine, school education, public communication and opinion-forming, and public administration.

This has shown that the assessment of AI “should always be context-, application- and person-specific”, the committee explains. Delegating activities to machines can have “very different effects for different groups of people, actors and stakeholders,” explains the working group’s spokeswoman, Judith Simon. “That’s why it’s important to look closely at who this is associated with greater ability to act and whose ability to act is more likely to be reduced.”

Quality assurance and data protection in medicine

For the medical sector, the recommendations of the Ethics Council focus, among other things, on quality assurance in the development and use of AI products. In addition, loss of medical competence must be prevented and patient privacy must be reconciled with intensive data use in medical research.

Orientation to fundamental educational ideas

According to the recommendations, the use of AI in school education should not be driven by technological visions, but should be based on basic educational ideas. It should also be limited to items that have been shown to improve learners’ competences and social interactions.

Establish and further develop public communication

In the field of public communication and opinion-forming, the Ethics Council advises, among other things, to further develop the rules for online platforms with regard to the selection and moderation of content, as well as personalized advertising and data trading. He also calls for better access to platform data for research and recommends considering the creation of a public-law digital communication infrastructure.

Consideration of the individual case in public administration

For the use of AI in public administration, the Ethics Council recommends approaches that protect against discrimination and avoid blindly following machine recommendations. He also demands that individual cases and the right of inspection and objection of those involved be guaranteed.

(AFP)

Source: Blick