Davos Attendee Calls for AI Regulation To Prevent Chatbots From “Potentially Spewing Misinformation”

The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual gathering of elected and unelected elites from around the world is once more under way in Switzerland’s Davos, and this year AI is unsurprisingly garnering a fair share of attention.

More precisely, how to harness its power, including through new regulation, but as one participant, DeepLearning.AI founder Andrew Ng put it, not of the tech itself, but rather of its “applications.”

Ng told the WEF that while there is amplification of warnings about problems arising from AI, calling them hypothetical, and of risk assessments that are sensationalist – what he says as the real potential issues get overlooked.

So let’s not vilify AI – but let’s still seek to control, i.e., regulate it, via “applications.” And here Ng seems to go straight for the sensationalist, only under a different pretext, mentioning rather broadly defined “systems that can emotionally manipulate people for profit” as something that would be justified to regulate.

... his “clear” identification becomes muddier, and we finally meet our old friend “disinformation” again. According to him, “chat systems potentially spewing disinformation” is something that can not only be straight-forwardly identified, but is also “actually risky” – and needs to be censored, i.e., regulated in a “tiered” manner.

Ng is also not a fan of proposals to do this taking into account the size of a model used by an AI project, and believes that both small and large ones can be equally dangerous when it comes to the two things he seems “stuck” on – “bad medical advice” and, “generating disinformation.”

🔗Source: ReclaimTheNet

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"The age of information, social media, and the internet just rose in the past 30 years, with social media only exploding in the past 20 years. Not even two decades since the explosion of social media among the general population in 2005.

2008 was the first real economic crisis in the age of social media - of mass decentralized information flow between people, instantaneously, at virtually any distance.

In 2015/2016, we have the rise of populism..." Cont'd: Populism on the Rise - Excerpt

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