Product design to racial justice: Global plan to promote ethical AI

While AI has unleashed a wave of opportunities from tackling diseases to improving transport, it has stirred controversy over facial recognition, automated decision-making and Covid-19 tracking, the WEF said at its virtual Davos meeting. — Reuters

From reducing bias in product design to tackling racial injustice, more than 100 businesses, governments and nonprofits on Jan 28 launched a global initiative to make artificial intelligence more ethical and transparent.

The Global AI Action Alliance will identify tools and best practices to safely and ethically use AI, which is projected to contribute more than US$14 trillion (RM56.75 trillion) to the global economy by 2035.