{"id":126031,"date":"2021-08-09T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/google-is-developing-a-new-superintelligent-ai-but-ethical-questions-remain"},"modified":"2021-08-09T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:22:35","slug":"google-is-developing-a-new-superintelligent-ai-but-ethical-questions-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/google-is-developing-a-new-superintelligent-ai-but-ethical-questions-remain","title":{"rendered":"Google is developing a new superintelligent AI but ethical questions remain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dean\u2019s appearance at TED comes during a time when critics\u2014including current Google employees <\/a>\u2014are calling for greater scrutiny<\/a> over big tech\u2019s control over the world\u2019s AI systems. Among those critics was one who spoke right after Dean at TED. Coder Xiaowei R. Wang,<\/a> creative director of the indie tech magazine Logic, argued for community-led innovations. \u201cWithin AI there is only a case for optimism if people and communities can make the case themselves, instead of people like Jeff Dean and companies like Google making the case for them, while shutting down the communities [that] AI for Good<\/a> is supposed to help,\u201d she said. (AI for Good is a movement that seeks to orient machine learning toward solving the world\u2019s most pressing social equity problems.) <\/p>\n

TED curator Chris Andersen and Greg Brockman, co-founder of the AI ethics research group Open AI<\/a>, also wrestled with the unintended consequences of powerful machine learning systems at the end of the conference. Brockman described a scenario in which humans serve as moral guides to AI. \u201cWe can teach the system the values we want, as we would a child,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an important but subtle point. I think you do need the system to learn a model of the world. If you\u2019re teaching a child, they need to learn what good and bad is.\u201d<\/p>\n

There also is room for some gatekeeping to be done once the machines have been taught, Anderson suggested. \u201cOne of the key issues to keeping this thing on track is to very carefully pick the people who look at the output of these unsupervised learning systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dean\u2019s appearance at TED comes during a time when critics\u2014including current Google employees \u2014are calling for greater scrutiny over big tech\u2019s control over the world\u2019s AI systems. Among those critics was one who spoke right after Dean at TED. Coder Xiaowei R. Wang, creative director of the indie tech magazine Logic, argued for community-led innovations. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}