AI Ethics, the Neuralink Enigma, and Statistical Inference as the Anticlimax of Machiavelli’s Prince

AI Ethics, the Neuralink Enigma, and Statistical Inference as the Anticlimax of Machiavelli’s Prince

연구 분야: Artificial Intelligence

학회: Digital Society

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, one more company hopes to dominate the brain-computer interface (BCI) market, has implanted a brain-reading device into a person. BCIs record and decode brain signals activity, with the goal of allowing, for instance, an individual affected by severe paralysis (or a cyber terrorist) to control a robotic arm, computer or other device through thought alone. Neuroprosthesis or neuroweapon? No protocol about the enigmatic Neuralink’s brain chip was ever registered on ClinicalTrials.gov. In accordance with bioethical praxis, such a circumstance represents a grave failure in the protection of those who volunteer for implant-related tests. But what does it say about statistical inference (SI) in general? SI consists of a key issue surrounding the statistical fairness dilemma, or the tracking/distribution of benefits and harms in AI ethics applied to computer science. Like the anticlimax of Machiavelli’s prince, SI formulates a fairness-anchored algebra without prior discussing what fairness is.