Electricity usage by data centres causing higher bills for local communities Continued overexploitation of countries providing precious raw materials with little/no compensation Mis-, mal-, disinformation skyrocketing Some private ChatGPT conversations being available for general public to view AI being used for surveillance and repression of dissenters
An AI system that automates surveillance, control and punishment against humans without proper oversight is dangerous. If it lacks transparency, then it cannot be in charge of transparency or accountability. If it reinforces existing discrimination, then it cannot be trusted to aim weapons at the right targets. If it makes mistakes and constantly lies, then it cannot be used to determine truth.
Instead, AI should be built on serving public interest, cocreated by the communities most impacted. Ethical AI would move from a model of maximum data extraction to one of maximum data sovereignty, and protect the rights of its users and the humans whose labour it is trained on. The central goal would not be profit, war or any form of harm. It would be to heal, explore, learn and protect.
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The world jumped to adopt AIs without proper guardrails in place, and we are seeing the impacts of this today.
But is ethical AI possible? Yes.
Here’s what it could look like.
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