New report warns of technology’s ability to ‘influence democratic processes or cause other deceit’ as well as ‘target minority racial groups’
grapple with the new technology’s application in student cheating, the industry department’s discussion paper warns AI has a range of “potentially harmful purposes”.to influence democratic processes or cause other deceit, creating misinformation and disinformation, [and] encouraging people to self-harm”.
The NSTC report found that “the concentration of generative AI resources within a small number of large multinational and primarily US-based technology companies poses potentials risks to Australia”. “There is a developing international direction towards a risk-based approach for governance of AI,” it said.
It boils down to this: most old-school computers do what they are told. They follow instructions given to them in the form of code. But if we want computers to solve more complex tasks, they need to do more than that. To be smarter, we are trying to train them how to learn in a way that imitates human behaviour.
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