AI’s identity crisis

Of course, there are major ethical issues to work out—leaps forward in technology often walk a fine line between deeply-impactful and dystopian. Among the questions we need to figure out:

• Who is responsible for AI’s mistakes?


• Who is the creator of an AI work? Is it the AI? The developers? The person who wrote the prompt? The people whose work was use

An eighth challenge for AI is that it is all too easy for an AI to end up with the wrong goals.

That’s what happens, it would seem, when the development of AI is led primarily by venture-funded technology companies. The definition of intelligence which is framed, endorsed and ultimately constructed in machines is a profit-seeking, extractive one.