Ms Jelena Tijanic, a master student at the University of Donja Gorica just defended her Master thesis titled “Ethics and Artificial Intelligence”. The thesis was done at the Master academic studies “Statistics” (EMOS) under supervision of her mentor prof. dr Milica Vukotic.
ABSTRACT – Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous and enables many of our daily routines – booking flights, driving without a driver, supports decision-making in governments and the private sector. Artificial intelligence technology delivers outstanding results in highly specialized areas such as cancer screening and building an inclusive environment for people with disabilities. They also help combat global problems such as climate change and world hunger, and help reduce poverty by optimizing economic aid. But technology also brings unprecedented new challenges. We see increased gender and ethnic bias, significant threats to privacy, dignity, dangers of mass surveillance, and increased use of unreliable law enforcement technologies.
The first part of the thesis presents the basic problems that the world is facing and why the development of artificial intelligence is a potential threat to the future of mankind. A new recommendation adopted by UNESCO member countries was presented. The second part of the thesis describes the basic concepts related to recommendation systems, the way they work, as well as their division. Here are some examples of where systems are used. Ethical problems that can be encountered during their development are described.Finally, a practical example of a movie recommendation system is described. The process of making the systems was described and the result analyzed.
