The company established the ethics unit to address AI’s social complexities and ensure the technologies are developed responsibly. Specifically, the unit aims “to help technologists put ethics into practice, and to help society anticipate and direct the impact of AI so that it works for the benefit of all,” wrote the unit’s co-leads Verity Harding and Sean Legassick.
“If AI technologies are to serve society, they must be shaped by society’s priorities and concerns. This isn’t a quest for closed solutions but rather an attempt to scrutinize and help design collective responses to the future impacts of AI technologies,” they wrote. “With the creation of DeepMind Ethics & Society, we hope to challenge assumptions — including our own — and pave the way for truly beneficial and responsible AI.”
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