With respect to my current idea for my Futures Project (a proposal to increase corporation tax for AI companies to 98%), the ethical risks are minimal. The predominant sources of information employed for this research encompass economic, political, technological, and ethical materials, all of which inherently pose low ethical risks.
1.3 Reflect on the programme core course and its relevance to the development of your project idea
I gained a small amount of experience working with law during my time in financial services, but I have never formally studied it. My programme’s core course, Data and AI Ethics, Law, and Governance, was my first exposure to law within an academic environment. I was pleasantly surprised; I had imagined law to be rather a tedious discipline, but I quickly saw we would not be memorising long, dry legal texts. During the course intensive, I really enjoyed thinking about how legislation can be interpreted in different ways.
1.2 Developing a project idea
Whilst I have some academic experience in philosophy and ethics, I admit that the world of modern technology is somewhat of a mystery to me. I expect the digital knowledge I’ll gain over the next few weeks will help establish the focus of my final project, which I’ll define in due course. For now, I’m just brainstorming.
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1.1 What do you hope to get from the programme?
Like many of us, I am deeply concerned about some aspects of AI and big data, and unfortunately I do believe that this developing technology will cause us huge difficulty in the coming years.
However, as a member of the global ecosystem, I consider it my, our responsibility to make every effort to steer the use of AI and big data in a positive direction, even if our efforts fail.
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