Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Trusted

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On the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). Last Monday in Brussels, the European Commission presented its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. The High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence (HLEG AI), composed of 52 members, including myself, worked on the text for nine months. The result is a compromise that I am not proud of, but which is nevertheless the best in the world on this subject. The US and China are not comparable. What can we learn from this?



The story of trustworthy AI is a marketing narrative invented el salvador cell phone number list by the industry , a story to lull tomorrow’s customers. The underlying guiding idea of ​​“trustworthy AI” is, above all, conceptual nonsense. Machines are untrustworthy; only humans can be trustworthy (or untrustworthy). If, in the future, an untrustworthy company or government behaves unethically and has effective and robust AI technology, this will enable more successful unethical behavior. Therefore, the narrative of trustworthy AI is, in reality, about developing future markets and using ethics debates as elegant public decorations for a large-scale investment strategy. At least, that’s the impression I’m starting to get after nine months of working on the guidelines.