Google Launches Artificial Intelligence External Advisory Council
March 26 2019 - 4:07PM
Dow Jones News
By Maria Armental
Google is setting up an advisory council to help oversee the
development and use of artificial intelligence in research and
products, the company said Tuesday in a blog post.
www.blog.google/technology/ai/external-advisory-council-help-advance-responsible-development-ai
The eight-member advisory group, which will start meeting next
month, will look at issues such as facial recognition and fairness
in machine learning, the Alphabet Inc. unit said.
AI uses data-based algorithms to enable computers to emulate
human decision-making, handling things such as recognizing and
processing images or language.
But it has also drawn regulatory concerns, mainly over the
handling of data and potential misuse or abuse from flawed
algorithms.
Google came under fire in 2015 when its photo app tagged some
black users as gorillas.
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tags-black-people-as-gorillas-showing-limits-of-algorithms
The company apologized.
"There is still clearly a lot of work to do with automatic image
labeling, and we're looking at how we can prevent these types of
mistakes from happening in the future," a Google representative
said at the time.
Google, a leader in artificial intelligence and machine
learning, last summer adopted a set of principles aimed at guiding
the ethical development of AI. Last fall, it cited those principles
in opting to not bid on a U.S. military contract.
Write to Maria Armental at maria.armental@wsj.com
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