SAP claims to be first Euro biz to get seriously ethical about AI code

We are driven by our values - money is valuable

We design for people - AIs are people too

We enable businesses beyond bias - anyone who can pay is welcome

We strive for transparency and integrity in all that we do - we strive to deliver ERP systems too, see how successful we are

We uphold quality and safety standards - our systems don't catch fire

We place data protection and privacy at our core - then do a core dump

We engage with the wider societal challenges of AI - robot wars

SAP's seven AI principles

We are driven by our values

So the world is fscked right from the start.

Are you Mad? It just aint gonna happen.

Strewth. Whatever are they on? What have they been injecting.

The software house is also committed to ensuring its AI code undergoes rigorous testing in the real world, and making the input, capabilities, intended purpose, and limitations of its systems clear to customers so no one is duped by hype – or tries to use the software for naughty purposes.

In the real world, no man and his dog give a fcuk about any of that. Just look at the evidence in capital markets with High Frequency Trading Algorithms indicating all is well whenever everything is dire and hurtling headlong into Catastrophic Collapse.

Hype Rules and it produces turds beyond compare and priceless, whenever brains use shit for intelligence and new disruptive information is feared rather than husbanded.

And let's be honest now regarding ....

The firm's final commitment is to look beyond its own technology, and tag along with existing efforts to identify and mitigate increased use of AI in other industries and disciplines.

For instance, the European Commission established a high-level expert group on AI earlier this year, of which Markus Noga, SAP's senior veep for machine learning, is a member. This group is working to draw up a European AI strategy by early 2019, which SAP will no doubt take an interest in.

Does anyone really think and believe AI has any notion of listening to the likes of a European Commission or a SAP or a Microsoft or a Google and being led by them?

"We strive for transparency and integrity in all that we do"

Does that include your yearly tithe structure, aka license fees ?

I don't know about SAP, don't recall much noise on that subject, but I do know that if ever Oracle publishes something like that, I'll have to buy the popcorn by the truckload, because fur will be flying.

'SAP claims to be first Euro biz to get seriously ethical about AI code'

And of course the last to get ethical about its own actual business practices:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/barry_sookman_sap_vs_diageo/

Where's the AI angle?

An algorithm that delivers the wrong answer is not unethical, it is simply wrong, whether or not it is using what decades-old-algorithms are now being described as "AI".

Conversely, a company that blindly uses whatever comes out of their computer to guide legally actionable decisions *is* unethical, not simply wrong. Once again, this is irrespective of the sexiness of the algorithms involved.

The View From Rooms Afar .... with Future Control Centres.

That meaning has to be assessed in the light of (i) the natural and ordinary meaning of the clause, (ii) any other relevant provisions of the contract, (iii) the overall purpose of the clause and the contract, ...... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/barry_sookman_sap_vs_diageo/

The overall purpose appears to result in the third party stifling of novel first party progress.

Is that the Intention ... and Almighty Glitch for Fixing?

A bit like waiting 5 months for a meeting to avert such a disaster...