|
FWIW, 100% is unrealistic, as you would hire a personal assistant to do these kinds of tasks, and the personal assistant can be scammed, blackmailed, make stupid mistakes, or even be a foreign double agent. The problem is that, right now, AI models have more like the level of world-knowledge of a toddler, and so it is absolutely trivial to give them confusing instructions that they happily believe without much question. But like, let's say you wanted to hire random, minimum wage level gig economy workers (or you wanted to leave your nephew in charge of the store for a moment while you handle something) to manage your mail... what would you do to make that not a completely insane thing to do? If it sounds too scary to do even that with your data, realize people do this all the time with user data and customer support engineers ;P. For one, you shouldn't allow an agent--including a human!!--to just delete things permanently without a trace: they only get to move stuff to a recycle bin. Maybe they also only get to queue outgoing emails that you later can (very quickly!) approve, unless the recipient is on a known-safe contact list. Maybe you also limit the amount or kind of mail that the agent can look at, and keep an audit log of all of the search queries it accessed. You can't trust a human 100%, and you really really need to model the AI as more similar to a human than a software algorithm, with respect to trust and security behaviors. Of course, with an AI, you can't hold anyone accountable really; but like, frankly, we set ourselves up often such that the maximum level of accountability we can assign to random humans is pretty low, regardless. The reason people can buy "unlock codes" for their cell phones is because of unaligned agents working in call centers that lie in their reports, claiming the customer that merely called asking a silly question--or who merely needed to reboot their phone--in fact asked for an unlock code for a cell phone (or other similar scam). |