(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) – As artificial intelligence seeps more into people’s lives, making it ethical as well as functional is one research team’s goal. The group of academics, who hail from different institutions under the banner of the Responsible AI Collaborative, have been indexing stories of AI’s harmful outcomes since 2018. Back then, team leader and fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Sean McGregor says, “we were peaking in terms of AI optimism without a balancing recognition of tradeoffs.” The researchers’ creation, the AI Incident Database (AIID), would help AI practitioners identify and address the technology’s weak points. (Read More)