Should Trump wear an electronic monitoring device?
As an issue of fairness and equality, what do you think?
Jennifer Rubin’s opinion piece in the Washington Post got to me (gift link here) because I’m preparing to give a talk to 60 to 80 neighbors on how to think about AI, seeking to answer common questions I hear such as:
1. Artificial Intelligence (AI): how does the technology work? [Hint: think Mad-Libs.]
2. Common uses: where are we already using Al in our daily lives? Work lives?
3. Common abuses: where is the term Al misused and why should you care?
4. Jobs: what jobs are at greatest risk and how can our children and grandchildren avoid the negative employment consequences?
5. Jobs: what jobs will Al enhance?
6. How real are the existential threats of super-Al (artificial general intelligence) to life as we know it?
7. Global benefits: where is Al having the greatest positive impact on society?
8. Ethics, privacy and human rights: What's the role of government regulation?
9. Al Bias: what is it? How does it happen? What's being done to limit its negative implications?
10. Monopolies: some people have suggested big tech is proposing regulation to block further competition from emerging. What do you think about that?
[That list was generated in part by ChatGPT whose answers to the basic question I edited.]
People are riled up about bias in AI — see point 9 on the list above and read Rubin’s opinion piece. Then tell me if you get my fundamental points:
Our human systems (absent technology) will be unfairly biased.
Our technology assistants (‘normal algorithms’) will be unfairly biased
Our “AI” assistants and surrogates will be similarly biased!
Why?
See premise 1.
But does that mean we should just accept this nonsensical bias? No. Fairness and equality matter.
Would you take away Trump’s passport right now?