> Large problems happen when the human blindly trusts the computer and almost drive over cliffs.
I remember when car navigation systems were a new thing and there were frequent news reports of people who drove into rivers or lakes because the navigation system told them to cross the water, but not that the crossing happens by ferry (rather than via a bridge).
Other case mentioned was with face recognition, imagine a coop trusts the AI that tells him that you are a dangerous criminal, you could get killed if you are unfortunate because the cop could assume the computer is right and you are very dangerous and never thinks about the false positives
- there are algorithms used in justice to determine some risks, so you getting a lower bail or a longer sentence is decided by an algorithm and some of this algorithms can be proprietary,racists and unfair.
- I do not recall all the details but a judge was identified and his web surfing was identified only by using the ad tacking systems, this was done by some reasearchers but some bad guys could potentially blackmail important people
- there were some interesting stories about people that used genetic test services, if your relative use those you are part indirectly in the data collection
- I forgot the details but in some case after some lawsuit the proprietary algorithm was revealed to be an Excel spreadsheat and it had some mistakes or unfair data in it
There were some good examples where AI strengths were combined with human strengths and the results were improved.
Large problems happen when the human blindly trusts the computer and almost drive over cliffs.