“While machines can and will magnify our thinking and apply it to data faster and more accurately than we can without assistance, they still can’t think for us. Advantage: human.”

“In our view the EU has the potential and responsibility to be in the forefront of this work,” said Hidvégi. “But we do think that the European Union should not stop at ethics guidelines … It can only come on top of legal compliance.”

“We are skeptical of the approach being taken, the idea that by creating a golden standard for ethical AI it will confirm the EU’s place in global AI development,” Eline Chivot, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Data Innovation think tank, told The Verge. “To be a leader in ethical AI you first have to lead in AI itself.”

“it is important to build AI systems that are worthy of trust, since human beings will only be able to confidently and fully reap its benefits when the technology, including the processes and people behind the technology, are trustworthy.”

“Chinese people — including regular netizens, data protection officers, philosophy professors — care about AI-related ethics issues, including privacy… privacy is important to Chinese consumers, but it is absolutely dehumanizing to say Chinese people don’t care about privacy.”

“Privacy for marginalized populations has never been, and will never be an abstract. Being surveilled, whether by private actors, or the state, is often the gateway to very tangible harms — violence in the form of police brutality, incarceration, or deportation. And there can be more subliminal, insidious impacts, too.”

“It is part of what experts have labelled the “precision economy”, in which more and more aspects of life will be measured.”

“Amazon’s board recommended voting against all of them in the proxy statement released Thursday.”

“Watson’s thinking is based on statistics, so all it can do is gather statistics about main outcomes, explains Kris. “But doctors don’t work that way.”

“The biggest roadblock: People on the task force don’t have a list of the systems they’re studying. Despite repeated requests, the group hasn’t been able to get hold of a list of all the types of automated decision-making technologies being used by city agencies.”

“Prospective employers could ask you to submit your genetic income score as part of a job application. Health and life insurers could use it to calculate your premiums. Social programs might use it as disqualifying criteria for receiving benefits.”

“Existing artificial incubators are already emotionally difficult to deal with for parents. Infants in bags of fluid may be even harder to accept.”

“The harms for low-income people of a lack of data privacy are more concrete than for middle- and upper-income people,” says Gilman. “You become a target of predatory financial services, or on the other extreme you’re excluded from more desirable offerings.”

“The next big thing in HR is gonna be even weirder… while you’re being interviewed, there’s a camera that’s recording you, and it’s recording all of your micro facial expressions and all of the gestures you’re using, the intonation of your voice, and then pattern matching those things that they can detect with their highest performers.”

“Companies that are worming their way into all facets of our lives should remember this, whether they are deciding which products to produce or how best to support their employees. There might be some merit found in all of these considerations, but they are ill-advised. Each of these examples move companies further out of position and into the domain that elected legislators should fulfil.”

“This new generation of “menstrual surveillance” tools is pushing the limits of what women will share about one of the most sensitive moments of their lives. The apps, they say, are designed largely to benefit not the women but their employers and insurers, who gain a sweeping new benchmark on which to assess their workers as they consider the next steps for their families and careers.”

“Self-regulation is not going to work. Do you think that voluntary taxation works? It doesn’t. Companies that follow ethical guidelines would be disadvantaged with respect to the companies that do not. It’s like driving. Whether it’s on the left or the right side, everybody needs to drive in the same way; otherwise, we’re in trouble.”

“The virtues of AI include its particular ability to share data to reach a universal view of things; its capacity to help exclude human bias; the speed and efficiency with which it operates. It can transcend human capacity in all these things. But these virtues must all be measured up against our other values. Without doing so, we might be entranced by the power of AI into allowing it to take the lead in determining how we think about some of our most important values and activities.”

“The key question isn’t whether or how technology can automate something, but how the outcome would feel for us humans, and whether automation would support human flourishing or not.”