
Fiona Charles
Company: Quality Intelligence Inc.
Role in Company: Principal Consultant
Country: Canada
Speaker Biography
Presentation Description
Technological advances have always trampled and rearranged the ground occupied by society. Each wave of Industrial Revolution has brought massive social disruptions and individual suffering as well as major benefits and social progress. Each has posed ethical challenges too, as people adjusted to new realities. Each had its nay-sayers and prophets of societal doom.
We are now in the midst of change so rapid and profound that the ethical questions have fallen far behind the technological answers. Welcome to the ethical quagmire of the Fourth Industrial Revolution!
Which microphones are listening inside your house and uploading your family’s conversations to unknown recipients? Do you know how many cameras are watching you? For whom? Who is profiting? Who should profit? What facial recognition apps are comparing you to which uploaded data and making decisions about you?
Who can access your biometric data and your DNA? Who knows where you are at any given time?
Beyond the privacy questions and issues of data ownership and potential misuse, AI brings enormous questions and quandaries about accountability and liability for the critical decisions we are increasingly empowering it to make.
While robots can successfully operate on you with minimal blood loss and tissue damage, apps can deny or grant you a mortgage. And a combination of apps and robotics could bring an end to gainful employment for huge numbers of people.
New technology always brings unintended consequences. We need to ask hard questions about the human cost/benefit ratio of the path we are on.
Join Fiona as she tackles these difficult questions and unveils the truth behind the cost to our privacy with all these technological advancements.