This story recounts the horrors of a man being fired by a bot. As if from the script of a rejected X-Files episode, the mad computer tears his career apart piece by piece. Except that's not really what happened, if you care to read carefully into the story. Someone didn't renew his contract and therefore the HR systems… Continue reading Not everything is a hobgoblin
Category: Regulating AI
On angst and AI
This consideration of AI and its impact(s) also references much of the angst that is pervasive across contemporary discussions about how AI will affect society and how it should be regulated to prevent negative outcomes. The concluding paragraphs are full of interesting concepts on that point. "Self-regulation by the industry using a “moral and ethical compass”… Continue reading On angst and AI
US Government Accountability Office Report on AI
The US Government Accountability Office released a report entitled "Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Policy and Research" yesterday. You should be able to guess what it is about. If not, it comes with a handy graphic that may help you reach a conclusion: The report comes from a forum of experts held… Continue reading US Government Accountability Office Report on AI
Ghost in the machine
The newly formed Global AI Governance Commission apparently has proposed (although I can't find it on their excellent and highly organized website) that AI decisions must be subject to regulations providing that they are trackable back to a human being. Quaere how this would work in terms of how this would be documented or implemented in terms of… Continue reading Ghost in the machine
I guess they didn’t think of that.
My previous post about the potentiality of a conflict of laws between nation states because of how they might differently regulate or deal with artificial intelligence has an analgous consideration inside of Canada. A quick primer on the federal and provicial legislative spheres in Canada: The Constitution Act, 1867 sets out whether the federal government or the… Continue reading I guess they didn’t think of that.
Viene la tormenta! 