Davos Attendee Calls for AI Regulation To Prevent Chatbots From “Potentially Spewing Misinformation”

If you’re tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual gathering of elected and unelected elites from around the world is once more under way in Switzerland’s Davos, and this year AI is unsurprisingly garnering a fair share of attention. More precisely, how to harness its power, including through new regulation, but as one participant, DeepLearning.AI founder Andrew Ng put it, not of the tech itself, but rather of its “applications.” Related: Bill Gates Hopes AI Can Reduce “Polarization,” Save “Democracy,” Ignores Censorship Implications A natural stance, some may say, for a person selling some version of AI. Ng told the WEF that while there is amplification of warnings about problems arising from AI, calling them hypothetical, and of risk assessments that are sensationalist – what he says as the real potential issues get overlooked. So let’s not vilify AI – but let’s still seek to control, i.e., regulate it, via “applications.” And here Ng seems to go straight for the sensationalist, only under a different pretext, mentioning rather broadly defined “systems that can emotionally manipulate people for profit” as something that would be justified to regulate. DeepLearning.AI founder’s opposition to regulating AI tech itself is explained touching on all the right concerns (in terms of hypothetical new rules), such as that they may stand in the way of open source, innovation, competitiveness. So – let the technology run free, supposedly for these noble reasons – but then tighten…Davos Attendee Calls for AI Regulation To Prevent Chatbots From “Potentially Spewing Misinformation”