AI In The Professional Setting
When considering when and how to use AI, many ethical issues can come up. Knowing when and where to use AI, whether or not you should or are allowed to do so, and even how much work you delegate towards your chosen model becomes a serious decision to make.
In order to guide my own decisions and choices, I have a set of rules that allows me to stick to my beliefs while still increasing the amount of things I can accomplish in a day. The rules can be seen below:
- When dealing with information that is private, I use place holders at most.
- When doing a task that requires me to use concepts I don’t know or understand, I use AI as a teacher and guide instead of a substitute.
- In any work I do, I make sure that I can understand any and all outputs given.
- I hold myself accountable for any outputs that I utilize. The moment that I use output from AI, it becomes my responsibility to make sure it works properly.
These four rules weren’t created overnight or even over the course of a few weeks. They came about as I read articles about information being leaked, from classmate’s websites being unable to perform a vital function that they aren’t able to fix, and from cases where a bad output gets used in a situation that causes catastrophic mistakes, and require me to learn the material I need to know and they force me to take the very real consequences of improperly using material generated by AI into account.