Good AI for the Present of Humanity Democratizing AI Governance
This work addresses the problem of undemocratic AI governance for society, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ethical debates without introducing new technical methods.
The paper critiques current AI ethics as overly vague and proposes a more democratic, Cyberpunk-inspired approach to AI governance that incorporates public opinion to address power imbalances in the AI industry.
What do Cyberpunk and AI Ethics have to do with each other? Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that explores the post-human relationships between human experience and technology. One similarity between AI Ethics and Cyberpunk literature is that both seek to explore future social and ethical problems that our technological advances may bring upon society. In recent years, an increasing number of ethical matters involving AI have been pointed and debated, and several ethical principles and guides have been suggested as governance policies for the tech industry. However, would this be the role of AI Ethics? To serve as a soft and ambiguous version of the law? We would like to advocate in this article for a more Cyberpunk way of doing AI Ethics, with a more democratic way of governance. In this study, we will seek to expose some of the deficits of the underlying power structures of the AI industry, and suggest that AI governance be subject to public opinion, so that good AI can become good AI for all.