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The Importance of Ethics in Artificial Intelligence

(Or any other form of technology for that matter)

Ferry Hoes
4 min readDec 30, 2019

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“Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should” could be something to keep in mind when it comes to innovating with technology. The arrival of The Internet has 10x’d the speed of innovation and allows us to pretty much create anything we can think of. Artificial Intelligence is a great example of a space in which we can build whatever we like and then some, but should we?

As ethical as its developer

Ethics (noun): moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. ( “many scientists question the ethics of cruel experiments”)

We, humans, have something called “a moral compass”. It’s an agent that sits in our brain and basically tells right from wrong. When you see an injustice, your brain tells you something isn’t right. The actions that come from it are up to you, but you can tell right from wrong. The standards of your moral compass strongly depend on your upbringing and environment, but most people have one of these compasses. It’s also what companies build their ethics and compliances on, what’s right and what is wrong and how do we set rules based upon that.

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Ferry Hoes
Ferry Hoes

Written by Ferry Hoes

My name is Ferry, an entrepreneur from Rotterdam (the Netherlands) working and the intersection of Humans and Technology. Also, I publicly speak about it!

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