https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/ai-ethicist-and-ai-bias.html
Does your company need a Chief AI Ethics Officer, an AI Ethicist, AI Ethics Council, or all three?
Extracts: Just like their human counterparts in the workforce, AI systems are expected to adhere to social norms and ethics, and to make fair decisions in ways that are consistent, transparent, explainable, and unbiased. Of course, figuring out what is ethical and socially acceptable isn’t always easy – even for human workers.
Systemic bias remains a difficult and persistent challenge for humans and society in general. And unethical behavior has always been a risk in business. However, AI increases those problems exponentially.
With human workers and person-to-person interactions, the scope and impact of unethical behavior is typically limited by a person’s reach. But the reach of AI systems can be millions of times greater. ..
Unethical or misbehaving AI can have severe consequences, including lawsuits, regulatory fines, angry customers, reputation damage, and destruction of shareholder value.
The most obvious way to fill the AI Ethicist role is to hire one person with expertise in all the required areas and then make that person responsible for ensuring all the organization’s AI ethics issues get addressed. However, unless your business is just looking to “check the box” on AI ethics, there are at least two reasons why this approach won’t work.....the requirements of ethical AI often conflict with what AI developers and businesspeople would choose to do on their own (which is why an AI Ethicist is needed in the first place...the scope of AI ethics will likely outgrow that individual’s capabilities in the very near future as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated and important in business.