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The AI Bill of Rights published by the United States White House proposes that people should have the right to know if an automated system is being used and to understand how and why it contributes to outcomes that impact them. Designers, developers, and deployers of automated systems should provide generally accessible plain language documentation, including clear descriptions of the overall system functioning, and the role automation plays.

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Welcome to part four of our examination of the AI Bill of Rights published by the United States White House, as proposed regulations for essentially the use of AI, and the rights that people should have when it comes to the use of AI.

It today we’re going to talk about notice an explanation.

So let’s dig into this one.

You should know that an automated system is being used and understand how and why it contributes to outcomes that impact you, designers, developers, and deploys of automated systems should provide generally accessible plain language documentation, including clear descriptions of the overall system functioning, and the role automation plays.

Notice that such systems are in use the individual or the organization responsible for the system, and explanations of outcomes that are clear, timely and accessible.

All right, so this one is pretty straightforward, right? If a system is being used, that’s automated, you should know how it’s how it works, right? You should know what’s in the box.

And you should be able to say let’s let’s perhaps not use this if it’s not working right or at the very least be able to explain the outcomes.

Let’s look at a couple of the examples that they give in the paper number one lawyer representing an older client with disabilities who had been cut off a medicated fund to home health care systems couldn’t determine why, especially since the decision went against historical access practices.

In a court hearing, the lawyer learned from a witness that the state in which the older client lived had recently adopted a new algorithm to determine eligibility.

The lack of a timely explanation made it harder to understand and contest the decision.

A formal child welfare investigation is opened against a parent based on an algorithm and without the parent ever being notified that data was being collected and used as part of an algorithmic child maltreatment risk assessment.

The lack of a notice or an explanation makes it harder for those performing children maltreatment assessments to validate the risk assessment and denies parents knowledge that could help them contested decision.

Number three, a predictive policing system claims to identify individuals at the greatest risk to commit or become the victim of gun violence based on an automated analysis of social ties to gang members, criminal histories, previous experiences of gun violence and other factors, and led to individuals being placed on a watch list with no explanation or public transparency regarding how the system came to its conclusions.

Both police and the public deserves to understand why and how such a system is making these determinations.

A system awarding benefits changed, it’s great to invisibly individuals were denied benefits due to data entry errors and other system flaws.

These flaws were only revealed when an explanation of the system was demanded and produced, the lack of an explanation made it harder for errors to be corrected in a timely manner.

So this is about black boxes, right? As we use more and more sophisticated decision systems as we use more and more sophisticated AI like deep neural networks, there’s more and more that we don’t understand about what’s going on inside of the machine.

And this is part of the reason why there’s a major push towards interpretability and explainability.

In the context of AI interpretability means you have the ability to look at the code that is at use and diagnose it line by line, here’s what this line of code does, here’s what this line of code does, and so on and so forth.

explainability is looking at the outcome and being able to explain the outcome, here’s how the machine arrived at these conclusions.

The challenge that people are running into right now, and that tech companies in particular are very resistant to to go the interpretability route is that interpretability is dramatically more expensive for companies to do.

Because deep learning systems, you can audit them, you know, layer by layer, but it’s computationally very, very expensive to do so.

So you have a lot of big tech companies saying no, no explainability is all you need.

Which is not true.

Because, again, these deep neural networks are basically, if you don’t build interpretability, and they just big black boxes, and you don’t know how the system is making its decisions, all you know, is whether the decisions make sense or not.

The classic example of this is that researchers trained in image recognition algorithm to differentiate a wolf from a dog right and they fed it hundreds of photos of wolves and dogs and the system performed really well in in theory, and then they started feeding it real life stuff, and it failed all over the place.

And when someone went back and built interpretability into the system, like there was no way to explain the outcome.

But when they built interpretability into the system at again, considerable performance penalty.

It turns out the system was not looking for dogs or wolves or ears or jaw shape or stuff.

It was looking for snow, if there was snow in the photo was a wolf, at least in the training dataset.

And so the decision system behind the scenes was making decisions based on a non relevant factor.

That’s fine.

You know, obviously if you’re building an image recognition system for wolves, that’s not so fine if you’re building systems that impact people’s lives.

So, even within marketing, right, who you market to has an impact.

I was talking to an insurance company a number of years ago.

And they were building a system to identify ideal customers, their ideal customers to them were people of certain affluent means.

And the ugly reality in the United States of America is that money tends to also have a very high correlation with race.

And as a result, the system they built, even though theoretically, it was not discriminating on race in practice, it absolutely was.

And so they effectively invented redlining.

Another company, I saw in at one of the MAR tech shows build a predictive algorithm for ideal best customers for Dunkin Donuts.

I don’t know if Dunkin was actually a client of theirs.

They were just using it as a demo.

But they showed us this map of the city of Boston said, here’s all the red dots.

Those are the areas we’re your ideal customers aren’t.

Here’s the black dots where there aren’t ideal customers.

And I looked at this map.

And I said, You invented redlining again, and like what’s that, like, for God’s sakes? They were essentially using I believe was income spending patterns.

But it also perfectly replicated the demographics of Boston.

Areas like Mattapan, Roxbury, Dorchester had no ideal customers, right because they’re predominantly black areas of the city.

They are also lower income areas of the city, but they’re predominantly black areas of the city.

Places like Cambridge Somerville, Boston, the financial district, all ideal customers.

Now, if you know anything about Dunkin Donuts, coffee, the only people in Boston who don’t drink Dunkin Donuts are dead.

Everybody else, regardless of race, ethnicity, any any protected class, everybody ascertain six significant portion of the population for every demographic drinks Dunkin Donuts, right.

So their algorithm was flat out wrong, it was it was discriminatory and wrong.

And there was no explanation of how it worked.

And that’s what this principle of of AI Bill of Rights is really all about.

It is about.

Can you explain how your system is making decisions? Think about this go into your marketing automation system, right? Or your CRM as a marketer? Do you know how the lead scoring system works? Can you explain it, you explain to somebody yes, you have a lead score of this, you were selected for this, you receive this email.

Because of this.

I have had even in my own stuff just for my personal newsletter, I’ve had to go digging around in my own system to figure out why somebody was getting an email from me when they said they didn’t want it.

And I dug into it.

And there actually been some alarming cases of bots submitting other people’s data, I was looking at this one person who’s based in Amsterdam, and there was there was what looks like bot traffic from a server farm somewhere in the USA here that submitted their information at a time that they wouldn’t have been online, subscribing to my newsletter.

And I can’t go back and hunt down exactly where that went.

But I have at least the IP logs to trace down.

But if I hadn’t been able to explain, I fail to dig into my system, I could have been held liable for a violation of of an international law.

That’s the thing is that for us as marketers, we’ve got to understand us systems, we got to know what systems are, what they’re doing, what decisions they’re making, you know, how does somebody have a lead or B lead in our system, right? Because you don’t want to discriminate if you are adhering to in the United States, title nine laws.

And your system is saying someone’s a better lead than someone else because of a protected class factor, like what gender they are, you’re breaking the wall.

Right? And that’s that’s going to get you in a whole bunch of trouble.

So you’ve got to know what’s going on in your systems be able to explain it, defend it, and then if there’s a problem, deal with it, deal with it.

So this is a very good principle and requiring explainability requiring interpretability of AI systems is essential.

And again, big vendors are going to resist this like crazy because it is expensive to do.

But the first lawsuit they lose you know for a billion dollars might convince them otherwise so that there may be some change on that front, but to protect yourself.

Know how your systems work.

Know how your vendor systems work, require transparency from them require technical details from them if they’re unwilling to provide those details.

You may have to change vendors, your legal department and your finance department certainly will advise you change vendors if it is creating substantial risk to your company so be aware of those risks as well in the in the final section of the AI Bill of Rights we’re going to talk about human alternatives so stay tuned for that if you’d like this video go ahead and hit that subscribe button

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The government has proposed an AI Bill of Rights that outlines five fundamental rights that individuals should have when subjected to the outputs of AI systems. The first right is the right to safe and effective systems, which means that individuals should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems. Automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse community stakeholders and domain experts to identify concerns, risks and potential impacts of the system.

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In this five part series, we’re going to take a look at the proposed AI Bill of Rights, and see what’s in the box, see what commentary we can offer about this document.

Now, you probably want to get a copy of this to read along, and I’ll put a link in the in the notes below.

But this is an important document for anybody who’s working with artificial intelligence, machine learning data science systems.

In particular, in marketing, if you are using any kind of marketing automation software, or CRM software that has machine learning and artificial intelligence built in from automated lead scoring to anything else, you should know what’s in this document.

This was released by the White House just a couple of months ago.

And while it as a whole does not carry the force of law, yet, there are many provisions with it that are already covered by existing laws.

And that’s one of the reasons why we want to take a look at this document.

Also, full disclosure, and disclaimer, I’m not a lawyer, right? If you want a lawyer on AI, go talk to Ruth Carter, go to Geek law firm.com.

For that, I’m not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

But we are going to talk about some of the implications that could happen if your business is not doing things as ethically or as aligned with the law as you should be.

So there could be legal penalties for not using artificial intelligence in the right way.

five part series because there are five fundamental AI rights that are in this document.

And I think it’s important to point out, this is not a document about machines becoming sentient and having their own rights.

This is about the rights of individuals, human beings, when subjected to the outputs of AI systems.

So that important clarification.

So let’s dig in right number one, safe and effective systems.

You should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems, automated systems should be developed with consultation from diverse community stakeholders and domain experts to identify concerns, risks and potential impacts of the system.

Now, one of the things I really like about this document is that it’s not just theoretical.

In each of the sections that we’re going to talk through, there are examples of the kinds of things that each write is supposed to mitigate or prevent.

So in this one for safe and effective systems, the first counter example is a proprietary model was developed to predict the likelihood of sepsis in hospitalized patients and was implemented at hundreds of hospitals around the country.

An independent study showed that the model predictions underperformed relative to the designers claims will also cause an alert fatigue by falsely alerting likelihood of sepsis.

Example two on social media black people who quote and criticize racist messages have had their own speech silenced when a platform is automated moderation system failed to distinguish counter speech, or other critique and journalism.

From the original hateful messages to which such speech responded.

Pretty shot wins Facebook.

Number three, a device originally developed to help people track and find lost items has been used as a tool by stalkers to track victims locations in violation of their privacy and safety.

The device manufacturer took steps after release to protect people from unwanted tracking by alerting people on their phones when the device is found to be moving with them over time.

And also by having the device make an occasional noise.

But not all phones are able to receive the notification.

And the devices remain a safety concern due to their misuse that would be Apple’s air tags.

And it was a relatively recent thing.

Number four, an algorithm used to deploy police was found to repeatedly send police to neighborhoods they regularly visit even if those neighborhoods were not the ones with the highest crime rates.

These incorrect crime predictions were the result of a feedback loop generated from the reuse of data from previous arrests and algorithm predictions.

So this first one safe and effective systems is a good idea.

I mean, all of these are good ideas that some of them are going to be harder to implement than others.

safe and effective systems is a pretty as slam dunks go for AI.

This one seems to be a pretty safe one.

Your system should do what it says it does.

Right? And the outcomes.

One of the reasons why this right is necessary to even be discussed is because nobody who’s building AI systems in these examples and these examples is asking the very simple straightforward question, What could go wrong, right? You make a tracking device.

And don’t anticipate that someone could misuse it right? How could somebody turn the system against its intended use? How could somebody use off label? What are the things that you could use that you wouldn’t want your system to be used for? Say, maybe you make a social network and it’s being used to undermine democracies around the world that seems like an unintended use.

Now, here’s the challenge.

And this is something that the guide only peripherally discusses.

It talks a lot about things like consultation, independent audits, evaluation, regular reporting, and things like that.

But there needs to be legislation in place to create penalties for violating these rights.

Because right now there isn’t right now there’s, there’s no penalty for Facebook, undermining democracy, there’s no penalty for Apple making air tags that can be used by stalkers, there’s no punishment.

For bad actors and bad actors.

Most of the time, when it comes to AI technology are the technology manufacturers.

There are obviously individuals who misuse the technology, right? They they intend to use it in ways that are not authorized.

But there also needs to be some level of liability for the manufacturer of the technology, or this is all just nice thoughts, right? This is the AI equivalent of thoughts and prayers, it doesn’t do anything.

If in the process of building a system, you have a committee internally that says, hey, how could this thing be misused, and somebody highlights, hey, you could use this to stalk somebody, and then you don’t take steps to mitigate that you should absolutely be held liable for it, you should absolutely be held liable for creating something that someone highlighted this could be a potential problem, and realistically potential problem by putting a tracking tag in someone else’s luggage.

That’s not like sci fi, right? That’s not some crazy James Bond.

Thriller, which is totally unrealistic.

No, it’s very realistic.

That’s very easy.

Taking a tracking tag and taping it to somebody’s car bumper, that’s not really realistic.

That’s been in like every spy movie since the 1960s.

So when we’re talking about artificial intelligence systems, we’re talking about how are the ways that it could be misused now, and the big question that we have to ask with all these systems is, how can they create unsafe outcomes? Right? What are the outcomes that would be inappropriate? What are the outcomes that ways you can misuse these systems? For example.

Deep fakes, has been a, a differential use of technology.

For a long time, the initial purpose was adult entertainment, but has since been used to simulate world leaders saying things literally putting words in their mouths, they didn’t say, as a propaganda tool.

The systems and their manufacturers that enable that to some degree have to be have a part of the accountability, the init, in order for these these regulations to have teeth.

Now, the catches for some of this is going to be open source systems.

Open source systems, by definition do not have a level of accountability.

Right? You release some your software to the public, you say here it is public, do with it, what you will we expressly disclaim any liability.

And we provide no support or help, right? It’s just here’s the thing.

With AI, that’s becoming a challenge, right? services and systems like Hugging Face is transformers, T, the T five transformers, the GPT, Neo X models, Stable Diffusion, these are all open source products, they’re given away freely, anyone can take them and reuse them.

And like any other tool, some people are going to misuse them.

So there is no provision right now in any of this document for dealing with the question of open source.

Because what you don’t want to do is you don’t want to stifle open source development either.

It is responsible for a substantial amount of the progress in the space academia open source, that’s been the case for decades.

So there has to be that part as well.

But overall, the safe and effective system seems pretty logical.

And our takeaway, as people who operate these systems is, what could go wrong? How could we be misusing the systems we’re using them from in ways that are unanticipated? Or What harm could we do with a system and not realize it? For example, I met with an insurance company a few years at a conference.

And they were talking about how proud they were they’ve developed a system that would only market to specific segments of the audience, because they wanted to get only the best customers and unfortunately, they reinvented redlining in the process, which is the act of discriminating against certain demographics within a city Again no one was there to ask Hey How could this thing be misused and clearly in this case it was so that’s part one Stay tuned next up will be part two on algorithmic discrimination if you’d like this video go ahead and hit that subscribe button

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