“The people in the room were the good ones. The bad ones were (thankfully) not in the room. It was our task to legislate or otherwise mitigate the excesses of the bad ones.”
– UKAI Projects Managing Director
Jerrold McGrath, noting the ‘moral composition’ of attendees at a recent event on big data and surveillance. In his simultaneously cheeky and erudite post “Not Every Story Needs a Villain,” McGrath mulls over how “abstracted ethics” (and emotional reactions) often steer conversations about AI and automation in an unproductive direction.