Re:The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”
by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:36PM
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> We humans are superior at curation, discovery, and anticipating our needs. Not AI.
1. I think is far from established, and if anything the accumulating evidence shows the opposite (though I do hate the term AI when used like this)
2. The issue (for me, at least) is not "AI" replacing human equivalents (though in some parts of life, this is a huge issue), but rather the ease to which the AI's actual purpose and success metrics can be different from the claims made about it by its owner-operators.
It's not that this can't happen with human beings too - financial advisers who are actually lining their own pockets rather than providing you with the best advice for you. But it is much easier to hide nefarious intent inside an algorithm, and harder to discover it without access to source code (and non-trivial even then).
1. I think is far from established, and if anything the accumulating evidence shows the opposite (though I do hate the term AI when used like this)
2. The issue (for me, at least) is not "AI" replacing human equivalents (though in some parts of life, this is a huge issue), but rather the ease to which the AI's actual purpose and success metrics can be different from the claims made about it by its owner-operators.
It's not that this can't happen with human beings too - financial advisers who are actually lining their own pockets rather than providing you with the best advice for you. But it is much easier to hide nefarious intent inside an algorithm, and harder to discover it without access to source code (and non-trivial even then).