”And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.”
”If I let you know where I’m going… then I won’t be on holiday.”
Good insight.
#MI2
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– Jobbar du? frågar min fru.
Det är första dagen på semestern. Jag har gått och hämtat datorn, sitter vid frukostbordet och knappar intensivt och målmedvetet utan att röra vare sig ostmacka eller kaffe.
– Kanske lite… svarar jag tankspritt.
Hennes skratt visar hur väl hon känner igen mitt beteende. Jag har retat mig på något. Kan inte släppa det. Och nu skriver jag av mig.
Det är inte en helt lätt text att bemöta. Författaren av debattartikeln i SvD, Mathias Sundin, menar på att AI inte är något som står i stånd att utrota oss alla. Jag håller helt med.
Därför, fortsätter han, behöver vi inte alls reglera AI. Jag tycker precis tvärtom.
Den orsak och verkan som Sundin menar är skälet till stundande reglering känner jag faktiskt inte igen. Alls.
Men det är kanske en rad som stör mig mest av allt:
"AI har orsakat få verkliga problem."
Har du läst någon text av mig sedan årsskiftet så kan du nog ana hur det påståendet får mig att studsa.
Det var därför jag sprang upp och hämtade datorn. Det var skälet till att mitt kaffe kallnade.
Och så här blev min replik:
🔗 ”Reglering av AI är ett måste”
DEBATT. Det är inte skrivet i sten att AI:s fördelar kommer överträffa nackdelarna. Det är därför regleringar behövs, för att säkerställa en riktning som mildrar skada och skapar nytta för flertalet, inte fåtalet, skriver Per Axbom i en replik.
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Jag inledde semestern med att replikera på en debattartikel i Svenska Dagbladet.
"Det är inte skrivet i sten att AI:s fördelar kommer överträffa nackdelarna. Det är därför regleringar behövs, för att säkerställa en riktning som mildrar skada och skapar nytta för flertalet, inte fåtalet, skriver Per Axbom i en replik."
https://www.svd.se/a/dwQEkA/per-axbom-reglering-av-ai-ar-ett-maste
#AiEtik #DigitalEtik #DigitalOmtanke
@shimriez Tack snälla! 🙏
Semestern kan inte hindra mig från att reagera…
Om du tänkt tanken "AI har orsakat få verkliga problem", så har jag en replik.
#AiEtik #DigitalEtik #DigitalOmtanke
#SV
– Vad gjorde du första dagen på semestern Per?
– Jag skrev replik på en debattartikel i SvD.
– Om vadå?
– [tyst en stund…] Ahem. AI.
Nu ligger den på nätet.
"Det är inte skrivet i sten att AI:s fördelar kommer överträffa nackdelarna. Det är därför regleringar behövs, för att säkerställa en riktning som mildrar skada och skapar nytta för flertalet, inte fåtalet, skriver Per Axbom i en replik."
https://www.svd.se/a/dwQEkA/per-axbom-reglering-av-ai-ar-ett-maste
#AiEtik #DigitalEtik #DigitalOmtanke
The way I can actually edit my posts here, change wording, add links, update images, etceteras, puts me in control of my social media / microblog in the same way that I am in control of my regular blog.
This truly feels like the way it should always have been.
(I am aware that my changes may not propagate to all servers in the fediverse, but I am at least in control over my own ”original”)
#Fediverse
@pauldaoust
To be fair that is more of an intentionally provocative number, as OpenAI won't disclose energy use. There are estimates claiming that one ChatGPT query costs (in money) 100x more than a Google search, or consumes 10x as much energy. And one ChatGPT session, to get the response you want, can be estimated at 10 prompts.
But in the end there are many examples of things that can be done in more environmentally friendly ways. For example, writing a speech for a wedding. There's a lof of that going around now. Another way to write a speech for a wedding is pen and paper, and from the heart 😊
More on carbon costs here:
https://axbom.com/aielements/#carbon-costs
@Cleopatra
I understand what you mean, with a caveat: how would you use it without harming those who were already harmed during the development of the AI?
I agree that AI is not intrinsically bad (it *is* a tool), but the examples we are seeing today of how they are manufactured in dangerous ways and designed to mislead contributes to negative impact. This means that you can't dismiss harms by saying that it's *just* a tool.
@brooklynman From having to think… 😬
The EU AI Act addresses high-risk AI.
Consider an AI that assists someone who is visually impaired by describing what is in front if them (by taking a picture or using a live feed from ”smart glasses”).
This can be lifechanging. But also, when deployed using a model like GPT-4 that often gets things wrong, extremely dangerous.
As the Wired article points out: ”If an AI gets a description wrong by misidentifying medication, for example, it could have life-threatening consequences.”
The tool may not, just like ChatGPT, disclose level of certainty to help the user make an informed decision based on the output,
The million-dollar question is this: would an image-to-audio description tool be categorized as high-risk?
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gpt4-could-change-how-blind-people-see-the-world/
#AiEthics
@brooklynman
Yeah I agree with your point. I’d say my main concern is that the statement itself removes accountability and consideration for the bigger picture effects. Saying something is just a tool creates the faulty mental model of all tools having interchangeable qualities frrom an ethical perspective, which simply isn’t true.
Which is just me repeating what you just said. 😂
The word to watch out for is ”just”. If we instead said ”it’s a tool” that would make more sense. The word ”just” is there to shed accountability.
I’m considering how the technocratic belief that AI will save us all is related to a defense mechanism wherein one avoids acknowledging the harm technology has also contributed to.
It is easier to double down on a future where technology turns out to be the savior after all, rather than face a reality where you have to deal with harms done by something you have been promoting as a force for good all along,
@rm4
Thanks, yeah Soapbox is mentioned and linked in the blog post. There are quite a few that aren't in the infographic but are mentioned in the blog post. Fitting them all in the diagram would make it overly complicated I believe.
Not even the software I'm using myself (Akkoma) is in the diagram. I don't use Mastodon.
If a service becomes especially relevant to add to the infographic due to sudden growth or media coverage I'll consider adding it to the infographic. But I always welcome new ones that can be added to the associated blog post.
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
@samuel @konstellationen
Skriver ju mycket om digital etik och ansvarsfull innovation. Dock 85% på engelska. 😊
The way that you delete your Threads account is that you also delete your Instagram account. Quite unclear whether these two services will split or get even more integrated in the future…
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/06/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta/
A few aspects of flooding bookstores with AI-generated and assisted books:
– Plagiarism and copyright infringement. These texts don’t appear out of thin air. They are sourced from human authors without consent. Sometimes passages from other books or articles will make their way into ”generated” books.
- Misinformation. One non-fiction generated book sucking up its content from other non-fiction generated books creates a feedback loop where sources (and facts) become obscure.
- Quality. Don’t expect excellence. These books aren’t written out of a passion for writing, but rather out of the interest in making a quick buck.
- Energy and water use. Using AI for generating books is not cost-free to the environment despite being essentially cost-free to the person making the book.
- Non-disclosure. ”Authors” currently don’t have to label their books as being AI-generated.
- Fake reviews. All those reviews praising the books? How do you think they were written?
- Time waste. Imagine how many billions of hours will be wasted by regular people on volume upon volume of disappointing content…
https://www.inkl.com/a/gxXxAMtzqvN
If you want to understand how the sausage is made, I wrote about this in February:
https://axbom.com/ai-generated-literature/
#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
Trying to figure out if my phone has made me forget more things than it has helped me remember…
Hold that thought, I just got a message.