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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 29 2019, @11:58AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-sorry-Dave dept.

Artificial intelligence is ubiquitous. Mobile maps route us through traffic, algorithms can now pilot automobiles, virtual assistants help us smoothly toggle between work and life, and smart code is adept at surfacing our next our new favorite song.

But AI could prove dangerous, too. Tesla CEO Elon Musk once warned that biased, unmonitored and unregulated AI could be the "greatest risk we face as a civilization." Instead, AI experts are concerned that automated systems are likely to absorb bias from human programmers. And when bias is coded into the algorithms that power AI it will be nearly impossible to remove.

[...] To better understand how AI might be governed, and how to prevent human bias from altering the automated systems we rely on every day, CNET spoke with Salesforce AI experts Kathy Baxter and Richard Socher in San Francisco. Regulating the technology might be challenging, and the process will require nuance, said Baxter.

The industry is working to develop "trusted AI that is responsible, that it is mindful, and safeguards human rights," she said. "That we make sure [the process] does not infringe on those human rights. It also needs  to be transparent. It has to be able to explain to the end user what is it doing, and give them the opportunity to make informed choices with it."

Salesforce and other tech firms, Baxter said, are developing cross-industry guidance on the criteria for data used in AI data models. "We will show the factors that are used in a model like age, race, gender. And we're going to raise a flag if you're using one of those protected data categories."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @05:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 29 2019, @05:35PM (#848992)

    2 years ago.

    I forget the specifics, but they had robots called Personas or something. This one deviant kid treats them like humans, which leads to a battle between him and multiple schoolmates, as well as an anti-droid/AI league, and the military because a 40th AI (most AIs were huge building spanning affairs that controlled androids for a whole state or larger area and ran simulations and calculations for every droid in that region.) The problem was, they had already had an AI 'go insane' leading to the development of an AI cabal to keep other AIs from being produced or oppressing the world, effectively becoming a problem themselves.

    Long story short this 40th AI either followed the boy's wishes to the letter, or manipulated him into doing exactly what she wanted. It was an ambiguous ending. The people I have spoken to (foolishly or realistically) working on AGI fall into the camps of 'I will rule the world!' or 'Let it go and see wht happens to it.