Information & Ethics committee  I will defer to my colleague's assessment. I think it's a big question.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have a specific answer for you, to be honest. It's exciting to me that you're asking that question, because I worry that many people believe that they don't see an alternative to technologies that somehow come out of nowhere and they are then subject to, so I'm excited by

Information & Ethics committee  I absolutely will agree that there is a role for transparency somewhere. I'm just afraid of it as a proposal because it promises, I think, more than we can expect it to.

Information & Ethics committee  So, I agree with that. Let's look at a particular example. With regard to some of the algorithms that this committee was concerned about when writing its prior report, we know that there are already patents available that give broad outlines as to how the algorithms work. For

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I absolutely do. I just worry—I don't know how large the category is—that they won't be addressed by it. This is why I'm skeptical. It's not that it isn't a valuable proposal in itself.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm going to remain skeptical about transparency because I think that algorithmic impact assessment isn't a transparency proposal. I think that those proposals, as their title implies, owe a debt to environmental impact assessment. There may be elements of transparency required i

Information & Ethics committee  Well, I think I'm in sympathy with remarks made by my colleague. What I can add is that it's hard to foresee specific legislation, in part because we don't have a good definition of what we mean by artificial intelligence. It's really a loose term that covers all kinds of diffe

Information & Ethics committee  Well, my background before going to graduate school was as a software engineer, and my memory of that time as a software engineer fits with what many commentators are saying now: that software engineering does not have a safety culture. It does not have a culture that we would an

Information & Ethics committee  Well, a hearing on airline safety...so you'll forgive me for saying I'm not sure. I think that in general I would point to the level of comfort that people currently have with air travel as my main point, even despite the Max 8s. I think we could imagine something like that for s

Information & Ethics committee  I'm happy to defer to my colleague.

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much for this question, because I think it exposed a weakness in my own explanation. In the social science literature, they use the term “audit”, but they don't use it in the financial sense. The audit simply describes the process I outlined where two testers, sa

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity to address the committee. To frame my remarks before I begin with the substance of my comments, I just want to say that my position is that we are at a moment where I'm delighted that the committee is holding these hearings. We'r