Thank you for this positive report! Sounds like you've found a truly legitimate use for AI. Grunt work data mining is perfectly suited for machines.
But we could be headed down a slippery slope if AI starts shading results or making decisions best made by humans. Garbage In = Garbage Out. AI's lightning speed could lull us into complacency and cause us to check our brains and critical thinking at the door. It's a huge temptation for me and others to equate speed with accuracy and appropriateness.
Engineers often tell their project managers they can deliver two out of the three below -- but never all three -- and experience over time has shown this to be true:
1. Fast
2. Good
3. Cheap
Based on your result, however, I shall remain ***cautiously optimistic*** that AI can be a valuable tool for analyzing government and other data.
Sadly, we have seen how technology -- especially biomedical and AI technology -- has been used to egregiously harm humanity. For example, throughout the COVID era and well before that, technology in the wrong hands perpetrated massive psy-ops, digital surveillance, coercion, and authoritarian tyranny on the entire world. That includes AI as well as biomedical technology.
I doubt whether "protective" legislation can prevent that harm because technology is such a fast moving target while legislation can be difficult to change, requires purity of intention, and is fraught with unforeseen consequences. We must be careful what we wish for when legislating!
We absolutely must maintain a strong moral compass while using any powerful technology, especially AI. The slip from good to evil can be gradual and go unnoticed, especially when technology is managed by government elites who think they know better than the rest of us how to use it for the "common good." Note: I'm not saying you are a government elite, Heather Scott, not at all ;-)
To paraphrase for modern times John Adams in his letter to the Massachusetts Militia (11 October 1798): "Only a good and moral people can prevent the misuse of AI." He was, of course, referring to the Constitution requiring a moral and religious people, but easily could have been referring to AI had it existed at the time. (Source for original quote: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102)
Thank you for this positive report! Sounds like you've found a truly legitimate use for AI. Grunt work data mining is perfectly suited for machines.
But we could be headed down a slippery slope if AI starts shading results or making decisions best made by humans. Garbage In = Garbage Out. AI's lightning speed could lull us into complacency and cause us to check our brains and critical thinking at the door. It's a huge temptation for me and others to equate speed with accuracy and appropriateness.
Engineers often tell their project managers they can deliver two out of the three below -- but never all three -- and experience over time has shown this to be true:
1. Fast
2. Good
3. Cheap
Based on your result, however, I shall remain ***cautiously optimistic*** that AI can be a valuable tool for analyzing government and other data.
Sadly, we have seen how technology -- especially biomedical and AI technology -- has been used to egregiously harm humanity. For example, throughout the COVID era and well before that, technology in the wrong hands perpetrated massive psy-ops, digital surveillance, coercion, and authoritarian tyranny on the entire world. That includes AI as well as biomedical technology.
I doubt whether "protective" legislation can prevent that harm because technology is such a fast moving target while legislation can be difficult to change, requires purity of intention, and is fraught with unforeseen consequences. We must be careful what we wish for when legislating!
We absolutely must maintain a strong moral compass while using any powerful technology, especially AI. The slip from good to evil can be gradual and go unnoticed, especially when technology is managed by government elites who think they know better than the rest of us how to use it for the "common good." Note: I'm not saying you are a government elite, Heather Scott, not at all ;-)
To paraphrase for modern times John Adams in his letter to the Massachusetts Militia (11 October 1798): "Only a good and moral people can prevent the misuse of AI." He was, of course, referring to the Constitution requiring a moral and religious people, but easily could have been referring to AI had it existed at the time. (Source for original quote: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102)