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How Can We Optimize AI for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit?

posted by n1 on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:37AM   
from the skynet-wants-to-know dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

How can we ensure that artificial intelligence provides the greatest benefit to all of humanity? 

By that, we don’t necessarily mean to ask how we create AIs with a sense of justice. That's important, of course—but a lot of time is already spent weighing the ethical quandaries of artificial intelligence. How do we ensure that systems trained on existing data aren’t imbued with human ideological biases that discriminate against users? Can we trust AI doctors to correctly identify health problems in medical scans if they can’t explain what they see? And how should we teach driverless cars to behave in the event of an accident?

The thing is, all of those questions contain an implicit assumption: that artificial intelligence is already being put to use in, for instance, the workplaces, hospitals, and cars that we all use. While that might be increasingly true in the wealthy West, it’s certainly not the case for billions of people in poorer parts of the world. To that end, United Nations agencies, AI experts, policymakers and businesses have gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for a three-day summit called AI for Good. The aim: “to evaluate the opportunities presented by AI, ensuring that AI benefits all of humanity.”

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• Re:Simple Answer Re:Simple Answer (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday June 11 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)

  by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday June 11 2017, @04:23PM (#523857) Journal

  One of my conservative friends told me once how he completely despises and abhors Tom Bombadil, though he couldn't clearly explain why.

  Isn't it obvious? Tolkien himself said of Bombadil:

  I might put it this way. The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lost any object save mere power, and so on; but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control. But if you have, as it were, taken 'a vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing, then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless...

          It is a natural pacifist view, which always arises in the mind when there is a war ... the view of Rivendell seems to be that it is an excellent thing to have represented, but that there are in fact things with which it cannot cope; and upon which its existence nonetheless depends. Ultimately only the victory of the West will allow Bombadil to continue, or even to survive. Nothing would be left for him in the world of Sauron.

  To a conservative, Tommy B. is nothing more than a spineless hippie, married to an earthy-crunchy river spirit, squatting on land and relying on others to fight the battles. What's even more galling from the conservative perspective is that Tommy B. apparently has GREAT power, but refuses to use it.

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• Re:Simple Answer (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:19PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @05:19PM (#523873)

  I know it's ridiculous that liberals REFUSE to adopt Christianity and destroy the Muslims. What's wrong with them??? It's for JESUS guys, get with the program.

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