François CholletVerified account

Wow this is going to be one of my most favorite quotes: "Technology without ethics amounts to more efficient, more scalable wrongdoing..."

This is so true. Unfortunately, there's really no way to produce good, world-changing-for-the-good software without thinking really hard about the ethical implications of our assumptions. This is amplified when building ML solutions. Ethics is not a choice. It's a must.

This is soooo important to understand. ML Engineers are building things that directly impact untold numbers of people. It’s their responsibility to do it in an ethical manner

As long as keeping up with the ethics brings money, then we should be all good

Yep ethics shld be part of the curriculum. AI engineers will have significant impact on society so they should be held to the same ethical standards as civil engineers for example. However some of the pushback might be directed at cult-like ideologies rather than ethics.

More generally, that reminds me Rablais quote: « Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme »

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve; and it is not fastidious in its choice of a leader." - A. Einstein https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/03_ALBERT_EINSTEIN.ogg …

Its the nature of ML as it stands its based on existing data in most cases. Existing data can never adequately describe the present. There is always the process of invention that ML does not do very well. This is why there is push back since its sold as replacement for invention