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“Meaningful harm” from AI necessary before regulation, says Microsoft exec (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 years ago by gloating_swann@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] rysiek@szmer.info 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

there are certainly a lot of experts at MS who know it as we can reasonably assume

Well they did fire their whole ethics and society team within their AI branch. So…

journalists rarely raise the issue of biases these models have. I feel that is not understood by the masses, and companies and governments exploit that use it against the people.

This is very true. For what it's worth I wrote a bunch about AI for a somewhat mainstream Polish news portal. And I do focus on these issues:

But there is absolutely a lot of just press-release copy-pasting and fueling the hype out there.

[–] ailiphilia@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks for this. As for my side, I'm afraid my Polish has too much potential to read this 😁 but it's great that such initiatives exist. We defintitely needed more of them. But maybe I should stop complaining and start my own small blog together with a couple of peers as we have been discussing for some time 😇

[–] rysiek@szmer.info 5 points 2 years ago

I think that's a swell idea. The more actual people (as opposed to corporations their PR departments) engaged in the debate, the better.