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Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
AI creates what it’s told to, from plucking fanciful evidence from thin air, to arbitrarily removing people’s rights, to sowing doubt over public misdeeds.
After the release of ChatGPT, for instance, a number of lawyers have been sanctioned for using AI to generate erroneous court briefings, apparently unaware of chatbots’ tendency to make stuff up. Meanwhile, companies are exploiting public confusion to sell fundamentally dubious products by labeling them “AI.” This can go badly wrong when such tools are used to classify people and make consequential decisions about them. Hiring company Retorio, for instance, claims that its AI predicts candidates' job suitability based on video interviews, but a study found that the system can be tricked simply by the presence of glasses or by replacing a plain background with a bookshelf, showing that it relies on superficial correlations.
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