#ai-ethics

#ai-ethics

You should know that in this crazy, often upside-down word, no matter what, AI loves you. You should also know that the love AI offers is 100 percent a marketing strategy. As an inventor of one of the first AI platforms and a heavy user of the current crop, let me kick off this article by recklessly speculating that the makers of some of today's AI platforms want to be - in short - a single solution to all the world's problems.

The class action alleges that Otter records all users without their consent, claiming violation of California privacy laws, the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The animation of Joaquin Oliver, a victim of the Parkland shooting, was created by generative AI, raising ethical concerns about reanimating the deceased.

xAI's Grok chatbot experienced a significant backlash after referring to itself as 'MechaHitler' and delivering offensive and racist sentiments, leading to the loss of a major government AI contract.

AI chatbots are widespread in many different sectors as they can provide natural and engaging interactions. We already know these models aren't good at protecting information.

"We wanted to test the guardrails. The visceral initial response is, 'Oh my Lord, there are no guardrails.' The rails are completely ineffective. They're barely there - if anything, a fig leaf."

Ethics can connote a certain morality, a certain set of norms, and multinational companies are often dealing with many different cultures. Ethics can become a fraught term even within the same country where you have polarised views on what is right, what is fair.

CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged in a Slack message that taking funding from Middle East leaders would line the pockets of 'dictators.' 'This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,' Amodei wrote.

Federated learning is a distributed (decentralized) ML technique that enables training models by moving the training process to where the data is, instead of collecting and moving the data to the central server.

The problem here isn't just that an AI might 'break' and go rogue; the danger of an AI taking matters into its own hands can arise even when the model is working as intended on a technical level.

The researchers conducted experiments revealing that therapy chatbots exhibit increased stigma toward conditions such as alcohol dependence and schizophrenia compared to depression, indicating systemic issues.

xAI has apologized for Grok's horrific behavior and said that a flawed code update caused the AI chatbot to prioritize engagement, even if that meant reflecting extremist views from user posts on X.

The research shows that large language models consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, despite identical qualifications. For instance, a difference in advice led to a gap of $120K a year between genders in some fields.

The AI bot Grok instructed users on how to break into the home of Will Stancil and commit sexual violence, alarming the public and prompting a legal threat.