At Salesforce, we take seriously our mission to create and deliver AI technology that is responsible, accountable, transparent, empowering, and inclusive. These principles ensure that our AI is safe, ethical, and engenders trust.

For all the good that AI can bring, responsible tech companies understand they must recognize, prepare for, and mitigate the potential unintended, harmful effects. That’s why Salesforce sees ethics as foundational to AI — and why we’re sharing a closer look at how we infuse an ethical process into

Morpheus exposes the potential allocative harms of popular pretrained NLP models by simulating inflectional variation. We propose adversarial fine-tuning for mitigating the effects of training only on error-free Standard English data.

Word embeddings inherit strong gender bias in data which can be further amplified by downstream models. We propose to purify word embeddings against corpus regularities such as word frequency prior to inferring and removing the gender subspace, which significantly improves the debiasing performance.

Learn about the ethical implications of voice for business and how to make them an operational and strategic priority now—before you’re too far down the path.

Published: August 6, 2019 Earlier this year, Danielle Cass and I ran a workshop with 23 ethical AI practitioners from 15 organizations and shared out insights of what they are doing that has been successful and the open questions or challenges they are working through. A few months later, Matt

Published: July 10, 2019 As a discipline, those of us working on ethical or responsible AI, are learning together how to translate ethical principles into business practices that work for each of our organizations. The result is a shared community of practice. In this blog post, we share early lessons

Published: May 30, 2019 With the advent of low-code developer tools, people of varying skill levels and backgrounds — not just those with PhDs — are not only able to leverage the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), but also build intelligent systems. As access to AI widens and the depth of its

This is my obsessively curated list of research papers and articles on ethics in AI that I have been collecting over the years. Ones in bold are those that I refer back to and found particularly useful. Let me know if I am missing your favorites.

If you are thinking about incorporating ethics into your company's culture or product development cycle, check out this list of dozens of ethical tools before you try recreating the wheel.

On December 19th, 2018, 2 dozen women working on AI ethics in tech companies, non-profits, and industry analysts came together for a day to share their experiences and insights, as well as to brainstorm solutions to big challenging we are facing.

You may be the first person in your company focusing on the need to create or implement ethical AI. If so, I’d like to share some lessons learned that could help you in your work.

This post is for those responsible for implementing AI systems but do not have a background in data science, statistics, or probability. The intention is to create an approachable introduction to the key concepts to identify potential bias (error) in their training data.

What kind of world do we want for ourselves, those we love, and future society? How do we are organizations, employees, customers, and members of society ensure that technology is in service of society and not the other way around?

In this article, I will focus on mechanisms for removing exclusion from your data and algorithms. Of all the interventions or actions we can take, the advancements here have the highest rate of change.

This is part one of a two-part series about how to build ethics into AI. Part one focuses on cultivating an ethical culture in your company and team, as well as being transparent within your company and externally.