Ethical AI Development
With great AI power comes great responsibility. Ethical considerations for AI-augmented development.
Key Ethical Principles
- 🔍 Transparency: Disclose when code/content is AI-generated
- ⚖️ Fairness: Detect and mitigate bias in AI outputs
- 🔒 Privacy: Never send sensitive data to public LLMs
- 👤 Accountability: Human always responsible for AI output
- 🌍 Sustainability: Consider energy cost of AI training/inference
Questions to Ask
- • Whose data trained this? Was it ethically sourced?
- • What are unintended consequences? Who might be harmed?
- • Is this explainable? Can we justify AI decisions?
- • Am I over-relying? Maintaining my skills?
Best Practices
- ✓ Review all AI output - you're accountable
- ✓ Mark AI contributions in commits/PRs
- ✓ Use privacy modes for proprietary code
- ✓ Stay informed on AI ethics developments