AI & ethics: charting a responsible future

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the world, but its development and deployment raise critical ethical questions. This paper explores the key themes that emerged from a national conclave on AI and Ethics in India, bringing together industry and academic leaders. We examine the potential of AI for various sectors, with a thematic case study for the Genome Biology sector, alongside concerns about bias, privacy, and accountability. AI development and use, while underscoring the need for an ethical framework to guide its evolution, emphasizes the need for collaboration between academia and industry to develop ethical frameworks and translate principles into practical applications. In summary, ethical AI may serve as a moral framework of AI technologies to ensure that our technological capability aligns with fundamental societal values and human dignity on the road to progress. This framework by definition would not be a static set of commandments but a dynamic constantly evolving idea about the use of technologies like AI.