IDG Connect – Ethical tech: whose responsibility is it, anyway?

As organisations begin to use data for a wider range of purposes, and technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) become more advanced, the idea of ethics is being placed at the forefront of application development. For many, the question businesses ask themselves when building new technology applications must no longer be ‘can we do this?’ but ‘should we’ and ‘is it ethical?’. Jeff Fried, Director of Product Management at InterSystems explains to IDG Connect how the ethical issues of developing new technology applications are being handled by different organisations, and the impact that these varying strategies are having on developers.

Jeff Fried

Director of Product Management, InterSystems. Jeff is a long-standing data management nerd, and particularly passionate about helping people create powerful data-driven applications. Prior to joining InterSystems, Jeff was CTO of BA Insight, and ran product management for FAST Search and Transfer and for Microsoft. He has extensive experience in data management, text analytics, enterprise search, and interoperability. Jeff is a frequent speaker and writer in the industry; holds 15 patents; and has authored more than 50 technical papers and co-authored three technical books.

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