Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Trusted
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 3:55 am
The story of trustworthy AI is a marketing narrative invented 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.
Few ethicists involved
Part of the problem is the composition of the HLEG AI group. it el salvador mobile database consisted of only 4 ethicists alongside 48 non-ethicists – representatives from politics, academia, civil society and, most importantly, industry. It’s like trying to create a state-of-the-art AI central unit for government with 48 philosophers, a hacker and three computer scientists (two of whom are still on vacation).
Whoever was ultimately responsible for the extreme weight of industry in the group was right about at least one thing. it is true that if you want the European AI industry to respect ethical rules, you have to involve industry leaders and involve them from the beginning. There are good and smart people, and it is worth listening to them. However, even if the expert group included many smart people, the helm cannot be left to industry.
Few ethicists involved
Part of the problem is the composition of the HLEG AI group. it el salvador mobile database consisted of only 4 ethicists alongside 48 non-ethicists – representatives from politics, academia, civil society and, most importantly, industry. It’s like trying to create a state-of-the-art AI central unit for government with 48 philosophers, a hacker and three computer scientists (two of whom are still on vacation).
Whoever was ultimately responsible for the extreme weight of industry in the group was right about at least one thing. it is true that if you want the European AI industry to respect ethical rules, you have to involve industry leaders and involve them from the beginning. There are good and smart people, and it is worth listening to them. However, even if the expert group included many smart people, the helm cannot be left to industry.