AI definitions: Ethical Debt
/Ethical Debt - Ethical debt is the result of not considering societal harms and unintended consequences of new technology during development. It means putting off ethical considerations until later, so it becomes a debt to pay later. This can easily happen in the fast-moving production of AI tools. The people who incur it are rarely the people who ultimately pay for it. Similarly, "technical debt" is a software development term referring to the cost of choosing fast solutions now and putting off fixing issues until a future time.