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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai Introduction

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AI and society

• AI and hype
• Limitations of AI
-Bias AI and Ethics
-Adversarial attacks

• AI, developing economies, and jobs

• Conclusion

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai A realistic view of AI

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Goldilocks rule for AI

• Too optimistic: AI will solve all of humanity’s

problems and create utopia
• Too pessimistic: Super intelligent/sentient
killer AI can lead to human extinction
• Just right: AI is a powerful tool, but has
limitations. We can mitigate its potential
harms and use it to create tremendous value.
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Limitations of AI
• Performance limitations
• Explainability is hard (but sometimes doable)

Right-sided
Pneumothorax
(collapsed lung)

[Rajpurkar et al. (2018). CheXNet: Radiologist-Level Pneumonia Detection on Chest X-Rays with Deep Learning.]
[Wang et al. (2017). ChestX-ray8: Hospital-scale Chest X-ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly-Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax Diseases. IEEE CVPR]
[Images source: NIH Clinical Center Image dataset: https://nihcc.app.box.com/v/ChestXray-NIHCC]

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Limitations of AI

• Biased AI through biased data

• Adversarial attacks on AI

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai Discrimination / Bias

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AI learning unhealthy stereotypes
• Man : Woman as Father : Mother
• Man : Woman as King : Queen
• Man : Computer programmer as Woman : Homemaker
Computer programmer
Homemaker
Man: (1,1) 4
Woman
Computer programmer: (3,2) 3
2 Computer programmer
Woman: (2,3)
1
Homemaker: (4,4) Man

1 2 3 4
Bolukbasi et al. (2016). Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings.

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Why bias matters
• Hiring tool that discriminated against women
• Facial recognition matching dark skinned
individuals to criminal mugshots
• Bank loan approvals
• Toxic effect of reinforcing unhealthy stereotypes

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Combating bias
• Technical solutions:
- E.g., “zero out” the bias in words
- Use less biased and/or more inclusive data
• Transparency and/or auditing processes
• Diverse workforce
- Creates less biased applications

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai Adversarial attacks
on AI

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Adversarial attacks on AI

Minor perturbation

Hummingbird Hammer

Minor perturbation

Hare Desk

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Physical attacks

“Milla Jovovich” Fails to see stop sign Banana

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Physical attacks

[Sharif et al. (2016). Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-of-the-Art Face Recognition.]
[Eykholt et al. (2018). Physical Adversarial Examples for Object Detectors.]
[Brown et al. (2018). Adversarial Patch.]

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Adversarial defenses
• Defenses do exist, but incur some cost
• Similar to spam vs. anti-spam, we may be in an
arms race for some applications

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai Adverse uses of AI

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Adverse uses of AI

• DeepFakes
- Synthesize video of people doing things they never did

• Undermining of democracy and privacy

- Oppressive monitoring of individuals

• Generating fake comments

• Spam vs. anti-spam and fraud vs. anti-fraud

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai AI and developing economies

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Developing economies

“leapfrog”

-Mobile phones
-Mobile payments
-Online education

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How developing economies can build AI
• The US, China, UK, Canada, and many others
have vibrant AI communities. But all countries
still have a lot of development ahead
• Focus on AI to strengthen a country’s vertical
industries
• Public-private partnerships to accelerate
development

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 AI and Society
deeplearning.ai AI and jobs

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AI’s impact on jobs worldwide

Jobs replaced Jobs created

by 2030 by 2030

400-800 mil 555-890 mil

[Source: McKinsey Global Institute.]

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 AI’s impact on jobs worldwide
Share of Global
Occupation Group Overall technical automation potential by 2033 Employment (%)
Office support 87 9
Production work 82 12
Food services 78 5
Mechanical installation and repair 67 4
Community services 65 3
Agriculture 63
74%
21
Business and legal professional 62 5
Customer service and sales 57 10
Educator and workforce training 54 4
Creatives and arts management 53 1
Figure adapted from “The Economic potential of generative AI:
The next productivity frontier”, McKinsey Digital, June 2023
With Generative AI Without Generative AI

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Some solutions

• Conditional basic income: provide a safety net

but incentivize learning
• Lifelong learning
• Political solutions

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 AI for Everyone
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Conclusion

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What you’ve learned

• What is AI?
• Building AI projects
• Building AI in your company
• AI and society
Keep learning!
• Online courses, books, blogs, ...
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