Use for questions related to the social impacts of AI.
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Why do we need explainable AI?
If the original purpose for developing AI was to help humans in some tasks and that purpose still holds, why should we care about its explainability? For example, in deep learning, as long as the intelligence helps us to the best of their abilities…
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How could artificial intelligence harm us?
We often hear that artificial intelligence may harm or even kill humans, so it might prove dangerous.
How could artificial intelligence harm us?
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Is a dystopian surveillance state computationally possible?
This isn't really a conspiracy theory question. More of an inquire on the global computational power and data storage logistics question.
Most recording instruments such as cameras and microphones are typically voluntary opt in devices, in that,…
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How to reinvent jobs replaced by AI?
In general, what possibilities are there for reinventing job descriptions that could be replaced by an automated AI solution?
My initial ideas include:
Monitoring the AI and flagging its incorrect actions.
Possibly taking over the control in very…
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How much energy consumption is involved in Chat GPT responses being generated?
I note this question was deemed off-topic, so I'm trying to clearly frame this question in terms of scope of response I'm interested in, namely ethics and sustainability issues associated with the soon-to-be proliferation of OpenAI Chat GPT types of…
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Is the singularity something to be taken seriously?
The term Singularity is often used in mainstream media for describing visionary technology. It was introduced by Ray Kurzweil in a popular book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005).
In his book, Kurzweil gives an outlook to…
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What are the advantages of having self-driving cars?
What are the advantages of having self-driving cars?
We will be able to have more cars in the traffic at the same time, but won't it also make more people choose to use the cars, so both the traffic and the public health will actually become…
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When the AI singularity takes over, what will there be left for us to do?
Since the first Industrial revolution machines have been taking the jobs of people and automation has been a part of human social evolution for the past 3 centuries, but all in all these machines have been replacing mechanical, high-risk and…
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Why isn't ethics more integrated into current AI systems?
I am a PhD student in computer science, and currently creating a state of the art overview in applications done in Machine Ethics (a multidisciplinary field combining philosophy and AI, that looks at creating explicit ethical programs or agents). It…
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Are AI winters inevitable?
According to Wikipedia (citations omitted):
In the history of artificial intelligence, an AI winter is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. The term was coined by analogy to the idea of a nuclear winter. The…
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How is it that AI can become biased, and what are the proposals to mitigate this?
This is not meant to be negative or a joke but rather looking for a productive solution on AI development, engineering and its impact on human life:
Lately with my Google searches, the AI model keeps auto filling the ending of my searches…
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What are examples of techniques to prevent bias in artificial intelligence systems?
I recently read an article about how artificial intelligence replicates human stereotypes when applied to biased datasets.
What are examples of techniques to prevent bias (and stereotypes) in artificial intelligence (in particular, machine learning)…
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Would the people of the 19th Century call our conventional software today artificial intelligence?
It is possible that the view of what is impressive enough in computer behavior to be called intelligence changes with each decade as we adjust to what capabilities are made available in products and services.
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Would it be ethical to allow an AI to make life-or-death medical decisions?
Would it be ethical to allow an AI to make life-or-death medical decisions?
For instance, where there an insufficient number of ventilators during a respiratory pandemic, not every patient can have one. It seems like a straight forward question,…
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"AI will kill us all! The machines will rise up!" - what is being done to dispel such myths?
Science Fiction has frequently shown AI to be a threat to the very existence of mankind. AI systems have often been the antagonists in many works of fiction, from 2001: A Space Odyssey through to The Terminator and beyond.
The Media seems to buy…
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