The saying is that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and making AI ingredients and activities more apparent and understandable would let us debate them more actively and thoughtfully. Otherwise, AI will continue to find its way into the darkened rooms our our lives, unseen and unaddressed until we turn on the lights and realize it’s too late to stop the infestation.
Today’s special sections in the New York Times reminded me why I love museums, and why I see such opportunity for them to do more and be more to more people. They also made me sad.
We have been led into a dead-end debate between two opinions of AI that don’t exist much beyond the machinations of people who have something to gain from casting the debate in such terms.
Maybe the shape won’t be a brooch, but incorporating AI and its commensurate surveillance and active control into the everyday fabric of our lives is the ultimate wet dream for tech.
Maybe we all deserve a day off. One day each week to step back, slow down, and stop the buzz of endless tasks that otherwise constitute our every waking…or operating…moment.
Companies have been using tech to improve their performance for centuries and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with automating processes and services. But there are some “big” questions about AI that Taco Bell’s owners are challenging us to ask.
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act will only help ensure that the robot takeover is unstoppable. But thank goodness it will be orderly.
AI challenges our most basic assumptions about our rights as citizens, not to mention our rights as human beings
We’ve have been enlisted as subjects in this grand experiment. We aren’t informed about what’s happening, don’t possess the knowledge to understand or assess it, and haven’t an ounce of agency to do something about it.
I’m not optimistic that laws passed by state legislatures will do much if any good. The wording will be difficult, considering the Constitution protects our right to free speech irrespective of its accuracy. Also, one person’s fake is another’s truth. Defining what AI will and won’t be allowed to do sounds like a daunting task.