A group of Google employees feel differently: “Some had seriously hoped Sergey and Larry would step in and fix Google. Ultimately working for Google was incompatible with her role at the AI Now Institute, which she co-founded to examine the social implications of artificial intelligence. “In short, the current crop of AI, the AI that is touching our lives and institutions, is a corporate technology,” stated Whittaker. Amazon gets ongoing access to videos like those from Ring so they can continue to train their AI systems – this is really valuable for them. To remedy the harms of AI, Whittaker says we need to confront power: “As you probably know, power doesn’t move based on the force of argument.

Source: The Irish Times December 05, 2019 03:45 UTC