The mechanisms of AI hype and its planetary and social costs - AI and Ethics
Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKlink.springer.com
The mechanisms of AI hype and its planetary and social costs - AI and Ethics
sensationalist headlines conjuring fears of a techno-dystopian near-future overshadow more material issues over AI ethics that already exist – including how they reflect human biases, and the many ways in which they’re capable of manipulating users.
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Mary Martin added
AI scientists cannot help this or themselves. Like all technologists, they put blind faith and total effort into achievement, damn the consequences. The excuse is that if I don't someone else will (and gain from it whether money, fame, etc.) so why not me?
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MargaretC added
technologies narrated with commercial marketing terms like “artificial intelligence” are embedded in, and direct consequences of, human intention and political insistence.
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This imbalance between well-funded technological imagination and thin social imagination, amplified by materiality biases, explains many of the pathologies of recent years.
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Keely Adler added
The problem may even get worse. Generative AI is producing vast amounts of questionable content that contaminates the datasets on which future AIs will be trained.
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andrea and added
It is time to find ways to manage both the open resources and the AI solutions built on top of them in a way that is more sustain -able and reduces harm
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