"Open" AI: considering the ethical upsides and downsides of "Open" AI development

Abstract:
In this talk, I will discuss the ethical upsides and downsides of releasing AI openly.

I will first present our FAccT’22 paper [1], where we interview contributors to an open source Deepfake tool about their sense of responsibility and agency to prevent harm. We show that open source licenses and norms combine with notions of technological inevitability and neutrality to lead contributors to disavow responsibility for harmful ways their tool is used.

I will then broaden to discuss other …

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