[rexreed]

What worries me more are bad people doing bad things with AI, malicious use of AI, or just AI negligence. Deep fakes. Algorithmic decision making taking the human out of the loop (such as bad content moderation and automated account shutdown). Lack of disclosure. Lack of consent. Autonomous systems with poor failure modes.

It's not that I'm not concerned with bias and AI systems going haywire, but the above scenarios seem to get less attention from researchers, probably because their employers might be perpetuating many of these above issues of AI safety.

[BeFlatXIII]

IMO, deepfakes are a public good because they reduce the sting of blackmail. Does someone have an incriminating video of you? Let them release it and then point out that the shadows look all wrong.

[joe_the_user]

I'm not sure why bad content moderation would be a problem but bias wouldn't be. Both involve people treated unfairly by a system and both happen because the system uses "markers" for undesirable things, "markers" that don't by themselves prove you're doing the undesirable thing. There was post here a month or two ago about a guy suddenly putting a bunch of high end electronics for sale on some big site and being perma-banned just for a pattern that's common for fraudsters. The software that decides that some people don't deserve bail is operating by a similar method - markers which don't prove anything about the person by themselves, that often involve things that signify race, and are taken as sufficient to deny a person bail.