Moral, ethical, and legal perspectives
We will start by examining the U.S. census dataset with the executive function described in Chapter 1, Explaining Artificial Intelligence with Python, as shown in Figure 5.1:
Figure 5.1: Executive function chart
You will notice that we will focus on input, output, and accountability. Developing AI programs comes with moral, ethical, and legal responsibilities. The introduction to Chapter 2, White Box XAI for AI Bias and Ethics, proved that ignoring ethical and legal liabilities can cost millions of any country's currency. Every company, government institution, and individual that uses AI is accountable for the actions taken as a result of the AI algorithms that produce automated outputs.
In this section, we will take accountability seriously by investigating the inputs provided for our program and their impact on the outputs.
Let's examine the U.S. census problem from the different perspectives of accountability...