I'm being interviewed about AI and Human rights later today, a follow-up on my talk at Raoul ...
I'm being interviewed about AI and Human rights later today, a follow-up on my talk at Raoul Wallenberg Institute a little over a year ago.
It will be in Swedish, and I think I just thought of the perfect explanatory model. In Sweden we ALL watch the same cartoons every year on Christmas eve (don't ask). One of them is Mickey's Trailer, where Mickey, Donald and Goofy are on a camping trip in a high-tech trailer.
In the revelation scene they all convene at the breakfast table in the still moving trailer, and as they are devouring their food Mickey suddenly asks "Hey, who's driving?!" To which Goofy responds "Why, I'm driving!"
It takes him a while to realise he isn't and in a fit of panic he rushes back to the out-of-control car, inadvertently unhitching the trailer, which then comes crashing down the mountain road with Mickey and Donald still inside, Goofy of course completely oblivious to what's going on.
There you have it. That's the dilemma of AI today, summed up in this question: "Who's driving?"