Posted on 09/16/2021 3:36:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.N. human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces.
Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don’t comply with international human rights law.
Applications that should be prohibited include government “social scoring” systems that judge people based on their behavior and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender.
AI-based technologies can be a force for good but they can also “have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights,” Bachelet said in a statement.
Her comments came along with a new U.N. report that examines how countries and businesses have rushed into applying AI systems that affect people’s lives and livelihoods without setting up proper safeguards to prevent discrimination and other harms. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
The U.N. does not want the competition.
Then, logically, the UN should also ban Islam, correct?
Efforts to limit the riskiest uses of AI have been backed by Microsoft and other U.S. tech giants that hope to guide the rules affecting the technology. Microsoft has worked with and provided funding to the U.N. rights office to help improve its use of technology,
And how do these Masters of the Universe fare in AI?
Facebook apology as AI labels black men 'primates'
The danger with Artificial intelligence (which is more often just machine learning) is, among other things, in the absence of a clear "here is how we got from Point A to B." Only developers with an ethical and moral - and technical - backbone have a chance of building an optimization routine with big data that doesn't redline or do something stupid. Even then, because of the cascading nature of the algorithm, it will be incumbent upon the owner to monitor the algorithm to avoid unintended consequences.
When an unthinking, mindless program produces strictly unbiased results that reveal that there ARE race differences in performance, IQ, crime, the system should be promoted, not condemned as racist.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation
Yes, some people are concerned because we do not understand how AI ‘thinks’ only that it thinks it is right
There are a few papers on this.
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