Reining in AI, top-down
Sholeh Patrick
Technology is always a mixed blessing. Develop it unchecked by a sense of ethics, and we’ve learned it costs too much in human health, equanimity or safety.
Typically, that elusive balance tends to fly under the radar until after someone, or a lot of someones, gets hurt. But AI is different. AI scares us.
When I say it scares us, I’m not just talking about Hollywood-style paranoia about a robot-ruled world. We’ve already felt effects of unchecked use of artificial intelligence by both legitimate and illegitimate players, from annoyingly frequent and surprisingly personal ad popups to election manipulation, with love from Russia.
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