The AI dooooooom thread

[PJL]

'I was only following AI' is the new 'I was following orders' excuse.

[Jacob]

'I was only following AI' is the new 'I was following orders' excuse.

Yeah, but the systems are set up such that the humans involved don't have any way of questioning the AI. There's no point in the process where there's a human with information to challenge the output of the software.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

[Jacob]

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

Yeah, that's the point the article makes.

And my take on it, that AI is another mechanism for further diffusing any responsibility for the outcomes, and that that mechanism is a separate function from the AI decision making process itself.

[crazy canuck]

Aside from the errors AI makes in drafting legal arguments, the main preoccupation of in house lawyers these days is how they are going to manage the tsunami of legal issues and legal risks they see coming because of the pressures coming from the executives to use AI, without anyone understanding how it should be used and how to mitigate all the errors it makes.

The only thing "new" about this is using the term "AI".  Automatic target recognition failures have been blamed for tens of thousands of civilian deaths over decades.  Like nearly all the problems "AI" is being blamed for creating, it's once again exacerbating an existing problem.

Something that might be new is the high trust and low verification occurring with the use AI.  Of necessity for anyone pushing the use of AI - if anyone was to spend the time and resources needed to check the work and fix all the errors found, the use case for AI would be dramatically reduced.