Should this exist?
Perhaps this is the first question people should ask themselves before they start developing something. Nowadays, inventions are all about discovering how far technology can go, specially artificial intelligence related features.
A few days ago I was watching the movie Ex-Machina (I can’t help making movie references). The movie is about an IT engineer who built several robots with AI; in order to validate his inventions, he asks another guy to make a Turing Test to one of his robots. A Turing Test is used to test artifical intelligence: does the computer really acts like a human? Is it capable of a real human interaction?
Without going too far with science fiction, I want to emphasize that many invenctions are product of one thing: curiosity. And I get it, maybe that’s how science and technology work. But now we are facing a specific scenario in which technology innovation involves people’s data. That’s when we should think about the benefits and the damage any innovation can make.
Those of us who build technology — and those of us who seek out its life-changing efficiencies — none of us think of ourselves as the villain…
Ethics has to be considered in every development process. When we work with public data, it is important to think about concerns such as security and privacy. And always inform users what their data is used for.
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