Trusting the algorithm

Business Daily

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4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Artificial intelligence is increasingly part of our daily lives - in health, in transport, entertainment and much more - but how many of us actually trust the algorithms that drive it? Rolls-Royce says it’s now developed a system, called the Aletheia framework, that gives IT engineers in any sector a way of testing whether their AI systems are making decisions that are safe and trustworthy. The aerospace company says it's making the framework available for free to all. Manuela Saragosa speaks to Caroline Gorski from Rolls-Royce who helped develop the Aletheia framework. She also speaks about AI's trust issues with Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the UK and Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Plus Pag Miles from the global recruitment company Alexander Mann Solutions, explains how the Aletheia framework might help his industry which is increasingly relying on AI to select and match candidates to jobs.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuel Saragossa.
0:05.9	In this edition, trusting the algorithm.
0:08.6	The thing is, you're dealing with people's lives.
0:11.2	And so you want absolutely thorough checks and balances to make sure that the decision made by the AI system is the right one.
0:19.0	Well, now Rose Royce says it's developed a way to ensure the AI or artificial intelligence
0:23.8	we use is safe. And it says it's going to make that system available to all for free.
0:29.3	But what is it exactly? And what does it change?
0:32.0	It's an approach that says how do we build something that we can trust and that will be safe.
0:36.4	And because it is pragmatic,
0:38.3	it's very practical. And because it's practical, it's usable very broadly. That's all here
0:44.3	in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:52.5	She can read the elitometer.
0:55.0	She will be more valuable to us than any soldier we have.
0:59.0	In the fantasy drama television series, his dark materials,
1:02.7	based on the novel series of the same name by Philip Pullman,
1:06.2	much of the actions sent us around a device called an aletheometer.
1:10.1	Its magic is that it tells you the truth.
1:12.9	And the aletheometer of Mr Pullman's novels was also the inspiration for the name behind a new
1:17.7	system that's been developed by Rolls-Royce, the Alethea framework. It's a system which the aerospace
1:23.4	company says will help ensure artificial intelligence makes safe decisions for us.
1:29.2	Aletheia is the Greek goddess of trust. So that's why. Was it your idea to come up with the name?
1:35.3	Actually, it was my idea, yes. I did wake up in a cold sweat about three or four weeks after we'd got
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