https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/04/ai-to-aid-democracy.html
"There’s good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm
democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of
autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in
by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux
relationships with machine personalities that don’t really exist.
These risks may be the fallout of a world where businesses deploy poorly tested
AI systems in a battle for market share, each hoping to establish a monopoly.
But dystopia isn’t the only possible future. AI could advance the public good,
not private profit, and bolster democracy instead of undermining it. That would
require an AI not under the control of a large tech monopoly, but rather
developed by government and available to all citizens. This public option is
within reach if we want it.
An AI built for public benefit could be tailor-made for those use cases where
technology can best help democracy. It could plausibly educate citizens, help
them deliberate together, summarize what they think, and find possible common
ground. Politicians might use large language models, or LLMs, like GPT4 to
better understand what their citizens want.
Today, state-of-the-art AI systems are controlled by multibillion-dollar tech
companies: Google, Meta, and OpenAI in connection with Microsoft. These
companies get to decide how we engage with their AIs and what sort of access we
have. They can steer and shape those AIs to conform to their corporate
interests. That isn’t the world we want. Instead, we want AI options that are
both public goods and directed toward public good."
Via
Linux Weekly News April 27, 2023:
https://lwn.net/Articles/929688/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
