Keywords: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bad Actors, Financial Risk, Reverse Engineering, Social Risk, Transparency
Author: Andrew Burt
Publisher: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: The following article describes how there are risks to achieving AI transparency. First, corporations often expose themselves to financial risk by publicizing what they are doing, since this could give rise to lawsuits. Second, there is a risk that bad actors can reverse engineer algorithms based on their public explanations. This is a financial risk, in that competitors might be able to improve their own technology via disclosure. However, it’s also a social risk because bad actors could, for example, use this information to compromise the privacy of those whose data was used for modeling.
