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Protecting the individual from the AI

Media Coverage 1 January, 2024

//…While it is true that AI systems can be technology blackboxes and difficult to understand or control, that cannot be the reason why we give up on aligning it with fundamental values and principles of being human. The idea that AI is too large for us to do anything produces a repetition of doom, gloom, and despair, convincing us that our AI futures are in the hands of the select few who know and can control these Franken-monsters. As a researcher working with computers and algorithms, it is not in my training to predict what AI futures will look like, but I can perhaps offer three different ways to put the ‘I’ back into AI—an approach that calls for Human-Centered AI.

…In the face of sapient technologies and self-learning algorithms, if we do not have a strong sense of what makes us human, we are giving the authority of determining the measure of the human to these systems. The ‘I’ needs to be the measure of AI and not something the AI defines through its predictive, data driven, probability-based indices.//

Full article: https://bit.ly/48EuRZC (The New Indian Express)