Potential AI dangers go beyond just bias; there are concerns with mass surveillance using the technology and potential military applications
One of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence suggested Thursday that more attention needs to be paid to the moral framework that governs the use of the burgeoning technology.
Tim O’Brien, Microsoft’s general manager of AI programs, also spoke at the conference about ethical AI and the risks posed by the technology. “We have lots and lots of data to work with, more data than we’ve ever seen. It costs nothing to acquire, it costs next to nothing to store,” he said. “So the skepticism, I would describe as healthy skepticism, because you need to have a balance between the opportunity to change the world in a positive way, and the risk that it could lead us toward a world that we don’t want.”
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