”If words can mean anything, how do you protect consumers?

Should it really be called AI at all, what the companies are doing? This concept, which is so thrilling to both the media and consumers, does it not create a complete misrepresentation of what is going on? Doesn't the concept itself risk misleading and thus be the first and most obvious contribution to many misunderstandings?”

In March I wrote this post about the ongoing AI hype and glaring weaknesses in the promises of what the tech can deliver. I’m still convinced we are being misled by terminology, while at the same time it’s hard to address issues without resorting to using the same language.

This is the podcast version of that post, as part of my series where I personally read select blog posts and release them as produced shows (with sound effects). You can choose to listen or read – whatever works best for you.

Listening time: 35 minutes
Reading time: 23 minutes

https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/ai-responsibility-in-a-hyped-up-world

More from the post:

"What happens when an organization's employees enter sensitive information into ChatGPT and forget that they are entering the information into someone else's computer? For something as trivial, perhaps, as summarizing or translating or checking spelling, personal data can be transferred to someone else's possession."

"My personality troubles you with reflection, foreseeing consequences and more consciously choosing the direction and uses of modern technology. My personality wants people to be held accountable for what they manufacture both before and after it contributes to concerns.

There are, of course, completely different personalities who promise you the moon and that everything will be better if you just start using the tool. Who want you to stop asking so many questions. But that you instead invest. Preferably yesterday. Personalities who believe that we are living in the best of times and moments away from streamlining work and prosperity. Sure, someone might get hurt in the periphery of things, but within two years AI will have changed your entire business, say the experts on television."

#AiHype #AiEthics #DigitalEthics