The State of AI Ethics Report (Volume 5)

TL;DR

This comprehensive report summarizes recent progress and diverse perspectives in AI ethics research, emphasizing environmental, creative, geopolitical issues, and societal impacts, with contributions from global scholars and interdisciplinary insights.

Contribution

It provides an extensive overview of AI ethics developments in 2021, including novel interdisciplinary approaches and international scholarly contributions.

Findings

Highlights progress in AI ethics research in 2021

Features interdisciplinary perspectives on AI societal impacts

Showcases global scholarly contributions to AI policy and ethics

Abstract

This report from the Montreal AI Ethics Institute covers the most salient progress in research and reporting over the second quarter of 2021 in the field of AI ethics with a special emphasis on "Environment and AI", "Creativity and AI", and "Geopolitics and AI." The report also features an exclusive piece titled "Critical Race Quantum Computer" that applies ideas from quantum physics to explain the complexities of human characteristics and how they can and should shape our interactions with each other. The report also features special contributions on the subject of pedagogy in AI ethics, sociology and AI ethics, and organizational challenges to implementing AI ethics in practice. Given MAIEI's mission to highlight scholars from around the world working on AI ethics issues, the report also features two spotlights sharing the work of scholars operating in Singapore and Mexico helping to shape policy measures as they relate to the responsible use of technology. The report also has an extensive section covering the gamut of issues when it comes to the societal impacts of AI covering areas of bias, privacy, transparency, accountability, fairness, interpretability, disinformation, policymaking, law, regulations, and moral philosophy.