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Where is the AI safety movement?
For all the disruption AI is bringing, there is no movement holding it to account. Here are five key ingredients needed for mobilization.
Promoted as a panacea to cure diseases, revolutionize industries and tackle the world’s most intractable problems, AI is also quietly displacing workers, amplifying biases and creating surveillance systems pervasive and pernicious enough for any dystopian. One other example of resistance occurred after the wrongful arrest of Robert Williams — a Black man living in Detroit who was falsely identified by a facial recognition system, revealing the tangible human cost of biased algorithms. Growing regulatory pressure on Big Tech, at least in some countries, provides an opening, but the entrenched influence of industry lobbying is a formidable obstacle — and AI is complicated because the scale of the potential gains it might bring are so alluring.
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