Portrait of David Marino

David Marino

PhD - McGill University
Supervisor
AJung Moon
Research Topics
Human-Centered AI
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Human-Robot Interaction
Power Grids
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GitHub

Publications

The potential for co-operatives to mitigate AI ethics catastrophes: perspectives from media analysis
David Marino
AJung Moon
Would the world have seen less AI-related scandals if more AI companies operated as co-operatives? As a response to multiple high profile te… (see more)ch scandals within the last decade, there has been an increased call for introducing more accountability in the AI industry. However, it is unclear to what degree the proposed efforts have been or will be effective in practice. The question remains whether these incremental, multi-stakeholder AI ethics efforts are in fact trying to address a fundamentally systemic issue inherent to the existing corporate power structure. As an attempt to address this question, we gain an understanding of the major themes in high profile AI-related catastrophes in the last four years (2018–2021) through an inductive media analysis. We then investigate how the principle of democratic gov-ernance and distributive executive power - core to co-operative organization structure - could have prevented or mitigated the contributing factors of the reported events. We find that the vast majority (71%) of the recent AI ethics scandals are not the result of a lack of knowledge or tools, but attributed to power dynamics that hinder the ability of internal stakeholders from taking action. We present the co-operative governance structure as a possible mitigating solution to addressing future AI ethics catastrophes, and provide a critical look at practical challenges inherent to AI co-operatives.
2023-05-18
Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (published)
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