A critic of AI hype, I bring an ethics and human rights perspective to the table. My writing and talks on "AI" promote a return to universal wellbeing as a driver of innovation, not the misguided efficiency of a few, and encourages people to question the truthisms of "AI" that mislead and misconstrue. The unsubstantiated promises of "AI" need to reckon with the many harms happening as a result of its deployment.
Applied ethics isn't a checklist. It's about putting in the time and effort to understand risks to wellbeing with the express intent of avoiding, mitigating and monitoring harm. It makes sense then to assume that the open call to pause AI development is a good thing....
Humanity will never again get back the time spent on reading posts entirely made up by language models, much of it with fabulated content that is just not based in any fact or reason.
Time spent consuming concocted content will amount to hundreds of thousands of centuries of human time...
It's never more easy to get scammed than during an ongoing hype. It's March 2023 and we're in the middle of one. Rarely have I seen so many people embrace a brand new experimental solution with so little questioning. Right now, it's...
As more and more decisions about human fates are made by algorithms, a lack of accountability and transparency will elevate heartless treatment driven by efficiency devoid of empathy. Humans become mere data shadows.
Political philosopher Dr Annette Zimmermann
[https://www.annette-zimmermann.com/] published a very piercing cartoon on
Twitter [https://twitter.com/drzimmermann/status/1388526687814656004?s=21]. It
is a pastiche of the XKCD cartoon Types of Scientific Paper
[https://xkcd.com/2456/], and creatively reimagines titles of papers that expose
flawed thinking...
