A global perspective on AI

The rise of AI and super-intelligent AI raises ethical issues. AI is the power behind Google's search engine, enables social media sites to serve up targeted advertising, gives Alexa and Siri their voices, and enables OpenAI's ChatGPT to produce written responses from just a few prompts by the user. It is also the technology enabling self-driving vehicles, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without direct human intervention. All of these bring up complex ethical issues that are still unresolved and will continue to be the subject of ongoing debate.

This book:

1. Explores the complex topic of AI ethics in a cross-functional way;
2. Enables understanding of the associated ethical challenges of AI technologies;
3. Provides an up-to-date overview of the potential positive and negative outcomes of AI implementations; and
4. Has been updated to reflect the ethical challenges of AI in 2024 and beyond, and the moral imperative of navigating this new terrain.

This book presents a concrete approach to identifying appropriate ethical principles in AI solutions

1. About the author:

Dr Julie Mehan is semi-retired, but is still a professor at UMGC (University of Maryland Global College), where she teaches digital ethics, cyber terrorism, and information systems in organisations.

Dr Mehan has been a career government service employee, a strategic consultant and an entrepreneur. She has led business operations, as well as IT governance and cyber-security-related services, including designing and leading whitehat and blackhat penetration testing exercises, certification and accreditation, systems security engineering process improvement, and cyber security strategic planning and programme management. She delivered cyber security and related privacy services to the US senior Department of Defense, federal government and commercial clients, working in Italy, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Germany and the US.

Dr Mehan is particularly proud of her role as pro bono president of W2CW (Warrior to Cyber Warrior), a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing cost-free cyber security career transition training to veterans and wounded warriors returning from military campaigns.