Thread by @CarlaHustedt

@MiaD @CummingsRenee A2: #AI, like all technologies, is never per se good or bad. Besides many opportunities, it also bears the risk of reproducing and amplifying structural bias and discrimination and easing mass surveillance. (1/5) #AIEthics #TwitterChat

@MiaD @CummingsRenee The #COVID19 pandemic requires us to make some new tough tradeoffs - the difficult but crucially important part is a democratic debate on which concessions are acceptable and necessary. (2/5) #AIEthics #TwitterChat

@MiaD @CummingsRenee As of right now, we are witnessing the implementation of digital tools that restrict fundamental rights and freedoms, such as privacy and data protection. Not only in authoritarian regimes, but also in Europe. (3/5)
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@MiaD @CummingsRenee There is a risk, that we lack the necessary foresight to demand and implement boundaries for the use of these technologies and that systems that are put into place now will stick around and be used for different purposes in the future. #functioncreep
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@MiaD @CummingsRenee Another concern is that we overestimate the potentials of AI while underestimating the complexity of the problem that needs solving. No corona-app alone will solve the pandemic. By selling that impressing we actually lose it's positive potential.
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