"If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether
Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It
doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but
it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. When Alexa
responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its
developer’s interests ahead of yours. Usually, though, it’s not so
obvious whom an AI system is serving. To avoid being exploited by
these systems, people will need to learn to approach AI skeptically.
(...) As a security expert and data scientist, we believe that people
who come to rely on these AIs will have to trust them implicitly to
navigate daily life. That means they will need to be sure the AIs
aren’t secretly working for someone else. Across the internet,
devices and services that seem to work for you already secretly work
against you. Smart TVs spy on you. Phone apps collect and sell your
data. Many apps and websites manipulate you through dark patterns,
design elements that deliberately mislead, coerce or deceive website
visitors. This is surveillance capitalism, and AI is shaping up to be
part of it."
"Imagine asking your chatbot to plan your next vacation. Did it choose
a particular airline or hotel chain or restaurant because it was the
best for you or because its maker got a kickback from the businesses?
As with paid results in Google search, newsfeed ads on Facebook and
paid placements on Amazon queries, these paid influences are likely
to get more surreptitious over time.
If you’re asking your chatbot for political information, are the
results skewed by the politics of the corporation that owns the
chatbot? Or the candidate who paid it the most money? Or even the
views of the demographic of the people whose data was used in
training the model? Is your AI agent secretly a double agent? Right
now, there is no way to know."
https://theconversation.com/can-you-trust-ai-heres-why-you-shouldnt-209283
Ciao,
Federico
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