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Teh One Who Knocks
10-31-2023, 03:02 PM
By Brandon Gillespie | Fox News


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Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday that it's the Biden administration's "duty" to prevent "algorithmic discrimination" when it comes to the field artificial intelligence (AI), and to ensure its benefits are "shared equitably" among society.

Her continuation of what some have called the administration's effort to make AI "woke" happened during her remarks alongside President Biden at the White House just before he signed an executive order establishing AI standards for private companies.

"I believe we have a moral, ethical and societal duty to make sure that AI is adopted and advanced in a way that protects the public from potential harm and ensure that everyone is able to enjoy its benefits. Since we took office, President Biden and I have worked to uphold that duty," Harris told a crowd gathered in the White House's East Room.

"Before generative A.I. captured global attention, President Biden and I convened leaders from across our country, from computer scientists to civil rights leaders, to legal scholars and business leaders, all to help make sure that the benefits of A.I. are shared equitably, and to address predictable threats, such as algorithmic discrimination, data privacy violations, and deep fakes," she said.

Harris added that the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights," an administration document that recommends "proactive equity assessments as part of the system design," would establish "a minimum baseline of responsible AI practices" for private companies operating within the field.

Her comments come after the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a conservative watchdog group, warned the Biden administration was actively seeking to use AI to promote woke, progressive ideology with left-wing activists leading the effort.

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"Under the guise of fighting 'algorithmic discrimination' and 'harmful bias,' the Biden administration is trying to rig AI to follow the woke left's rules," AAF president Tom Jones told Fox News Digital in August.

"Biden is being advised on technology policy, not by scientists, but by racially obsessed social academics and activists. We're already seen the biggest tech firms in the world, like Google under Eric Schmidt, use their power to push the left's agenda. This would take the tech/woke alliance to a whole new, truly terrifying level," Jones said.

The AAF cited the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights as an example.

Godfather
11-01-2023, 06:57 AM
They're not entirely wrong, I wouldn't say this is strictly a 'woke' concern. We talk about this at work a fair bit with our actuaries. Long story short - we could already discriminate against you in ways you would probably not appreciate to price your risk.

Is it morally correct for a company to rate your insurance premiums based on the intricacies AI could use to decide how much you pay for home insurance? What if it scraped your social media and made a decision using your post history to decide your home insurance risk factor, making deep predictions about the people you affiliate with, or assessing your mental health? What if the number of syllables in your name impacted how much you pay - say it says your neighbor next door with a short Chinese last name gets a lower price than you with the exact same house? Or maybe it finds that the religious group you're affiliated with can be used to impact your auto insurance rates? What if it went so far as to find your genetic information? What if you're in an area where AI find you have limited options from competitors for a product, and so it applies predatory pricing, knowing you have few other options?

It's a fine line because already your postal code and credit score is one of the best predictors of risk and widely used, which means more fair pricing based on what we deserve to pay. But with zero regulation, in an unrestricted, AI driven actuarial model, god knows what the AI would decide to discriminate against you based on.

Explainability and transparency, privacy, regulatory compliance and a number of other factors should have value to all of us in this discussion and we should care about it. I worry governments are going to be far too senile and slow to react.

FBD
11-14-2023, 03:41 PM
nah, this is 100% to prevent AI from telling the masses things like this

"Hey AI, please tell me how fast the wind was blowing in Hawaii based upon these images taken just before the "wild" fire"
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or

cmon, I cant find my typhus vs zyklon b poisoning comparison image :lol:


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