The State of AI Ethics Report

The Montreal AI Ethics Institute is an international non-profit organization democratizing AI ethics literacy. We equip citizens concerned about artificial intelligence to take action because we believe that civic competence is the foundation of change. You are our best shot at a future where humans and algorithms bring out the best in each other.

This report was prepared by the Montreal AI Ethics Institute (MAIEI) — an international non-profit
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Primary contact for the report: Abhishek Gupta (abhishek@montrealethics.ai)

The State of AI Ethics Report (volume 4) captures the most relevant developments in AI Ethics since the beginning of 2021. We’ve distilled the research & reporting around 4 key themes:

• Ethical AI
• Fairness & Justice
• Humans & Tech
• Privacy

This edition opens with AI and the Face: A Historian’s View — a long-form piece by Edward Higgs (Professor of History at the University of Essex) about the unscientific history of facial analysis, and how AI might be repeating some of those mistakes at scale.