At Order Tech Latam we understand that human development can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) with awareness, responsibility and objectives that allow us to create dignified living conditions for the more than 8 billion people that inhabit the planet. Today we are witnessing the emerging development of a powerful technology, which like all new things generates certain fears and where good information can help to dispel doubts.
Based on the article “Ideas for Change: Artificial Intelligence, the most human of intelligences”, Artificial Intelligence can have more or less ethical uses, with greater or lesser risk, and the challenge today is to find the limits of its uses that allow us to take advantage of all its benefits without being impacted by risks or damage.
If we go back in history, fire or the knife are technologies that, when they appear, radically change the history of mankind. Both, like Artificial Intelligence, have two sides. Fire allowed us to warm ourselves and overcome frost, and also to cook, but if the necessary precautions are not taken, it can cause burns and fires that can end in major natural disasters.
The knife allowed new food manipulations and to shape new tools contributing to the development of civilization, but it also serves to assault people, proof of this is that in all cultures we have developed rules that penalize the undesirable uses of these technologies. However, in spite of these risks, nobody thinks of prohibiting the manufacture and use of knives to protect us from their dangers and risks. And this is precisely what should also happen with Artificial Intelligence, it is rather a matter of identifying the risks and regulating its uses to allow a beneficial development for all.
Artificial Intelligence is a technology created by humans and therefore has many of the characteristics of our species, including the possibility of making mistakes. It can have biases and preferences when it is trained with biased data or its creators define criteria that are not equitable and this can contribute to increase social inequalities or injustices.
For this reason, it is essential to refine the methodologies of training data construction, algorithm design and algorithm validation to ensure robust and reliable AI, as well as to develop a regulatory and legal framework that accompanies the user, the company and the community with security.
Our collective challenge is now life. It is about how to generate decent living conditions for the 8 billion people who inhabit the planet, and how to do so without our survival threatening the quantity, quality and diversity of life of other living beings or future generations.
We believe in a new concept known as explainable AI, a branch that seeks that algorithms should be able to explain or argue why they make a certain recommendation and not another or why they make a certain prediction. We also believe that it is possible to formulate a new framework for the development of Artificial Intelligence in the service of life if we combine four interdependent fields of action: technological, methodological, legal and governance.
