The Ethics of AI

It is not so much AI that needs moral strictures as we ourselves.

No AI without ethics

We are long past pretending technology is a morally neutral undertaking. We neglect the development of an ethical code at our peril.

Innovation requires risk, and risk requires leadership

The price of doing nothing is steep, and playing it safe is anything but. The only way to create a culture of innovation is from the top down.

There’s an old saying, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” Over the years, inertia has changed the meaning of that phrase from “It’s safe to buy quality” to “Nobody ever got fired for avoiding risk.”

So, while a given person may be rewarded for avoiding risks, the company itself can take severe hits for the same thing. And an individual may be rewarded for successfully taking risks, a company’s stock may tank on the basis of an unsuccessful or even just longer term risk potential.

How can we advise companies to take chances—and back their people when they do so—but distinguish between reasonable and unreasonable risk?

How to prepare your business for AI

AI experts at Hewlett Packard Enterprise share insights about where artificial intelligence is headed and how to apply the technology in the business world.

Taming data is one of humankind’s biggest challenges, and it has exceeded our ability to efficiently use reasoning or intuition to make sense of patterns within big data. 

“The data flood is becoming a universal problem,” says Dr. Eng Lim Goh, vice president and chief technical officer, HPC and AI, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “But with artificial intelligence, a wild guess becomes an intelligent guess.”

If you’re considering AI for a key part of your IT infrastructure, pause here. A few of HPE’s AI experts share their thoughts on where AI is headed, how it can transform a business, and the steps to get started.

What is Trustworthy AI and why is everyone talking about it?

OK, perhaps I’m exaggerating. Maybe not everyone has heard of it. So we’ll tell you what it is and why everyone should be, and probably soon will be, discussing it.

The AI Research group at Hewlett Packard Labs, including Paolo Faraboschi, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow and Director of the AI Research Lab, and distinguished technologists Suparna Bhattacharya and Soumyendu Sarkar, have been working on this mission and how to put it into practice. So I asked them to define it.

How to secure remote digital workspaces during and after the pandemic

Here are the most important factors in securing an enterprise in a remote access world.

When the pandemic hit, companies scrambled to get remote workers up and running. Security, while not ignored, didn’t get the consideration it deserved. We are past that now.

“This pandemic has been a wake-up call to double down on your employees’ ability to do their job on any device from anywhere at any time of day,” says Tim Ferrell, master cybersecurity architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “You now have these unmanaged, unsecured, and untrusted devices, and they’re all attempting to connect into what is a normally very secure corporate or, in some cases, government agency network. You can see it just dramatically increases the amount of risk in the environment.”