Unesco Adopts Global Standards On âWild Westâ Field of Neurotechnology
Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining âneural dataâ and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. âThere is no control,â said Unescoâs chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. âWe have to inform the people about the risks, the potential benefits, the alterna ⊠â Read more
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For the innocent bystanders (because I know that I wonât change @benderâs opinion):
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gemini liked your opinion very much. Here is how it countered:
1. The User Perspective (Untrustworthiness)The criticism of AI as untrustworthy is a problem of misapplication, not capability.
- AI as a Force Multiplier: AI should be treated as a high-speed drafting and brainstorming tool, not an authority. For experts, it offers an immense speed gain, shifting the work from slow manual creation to fast critical editing and verification.
- The Rise of AI Literacy: Users must develop a new skillâAI literacyâto critically evaluate and verify AIâs probabilistic output. This skill, along with improving citation features in AI tools, mitigates the âgaslightingâ effect.
The fear of skill loss is based on a misunderstanding of how technology changes the nature of work; itâs skill evolution, not erosion.
- Shifting Focus to High-Level Skills: Just as the calculator shifted focus from manual math to complex problem-solving, AI shifts the focus from writing boilerplate code to architectural design and prompt engineering. It handles repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative and complex challenges.
- Accessibility and Empowerment: AI serves as a powerful democratizing tool, offering personalized tutoring and automation to people who lack deep expertise. While dependency is a risk, this accessibility empowers a wider segment of the population previously limited by skill barriers.
The legal and technical flaws are issues of governance and ethical practice, not reasons to reject the core technology.
- Need for Better Bot Governance: Destructive scraping is a failure of ethical web behavior and can be solved with better bot identification, rate limits, and protocols (like enhanced
robots.txt). The solution is to demand digital citizenship from AI companies, not to stop AI development.
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A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?
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@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This was an interesting read for sure! đ I donât think it had anything I hadnât already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. Iâm not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. Iâve forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you donât want to be that one guy that ya know đ Ethically/Morally though, Iâm definitely with the sentiment of this post đ Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (if yâall remember?!) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of âtechâ (if you can call it that?) in a while. Then thereâs these other issues âstealing peopleâs workâ, âreliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrinkâ, to name a fewâŠ
A good blog post that makes some good points: Can I ethically use LLMs?
On my blog: Devils, in Detail https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/15/devils-detail.html #ethics #harm #media #rant
@Phys_org@feeds.twtxt.net âŠwhich will be entirely ignored when the đ© hits the đȘ
âInterest grows in geoengineeringâ because pursuing the obvious, clearest, most direct solutionâreducing fossil fuel useâis for some reason off the table. That is already an unethical arrangement. Pasting an ethical framework on top doesnât change the rotten situation at its core.
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ethics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/29/ethics.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
There is a ârightâ way to make something like GitHub CoPilot, but Microsoft did not choose that way. They chose one of the most exploitative options available to them. For that reason, I hope they face significant consequences, though I doubt they will in the current climate. I also hope that CoPilot is shut down, though Iâm pretty certain it will not be.
Other than access to the data behind it, Microsoft has nothing special that allows it to create something like CoPilot. The technology behind it has been around for at least a decade. There could be a âpublicâ version of this same tool made by a cooperating group of people volunteering, âleasingâ, or selling their source code into it. There could likewise be an ethically-created corporate version. Such a thing would give individual developers or organizations the choice to include their code in the tool, possibly for a fee if thatâs something they want or require. The creators of the tool would have to acknowledge that they have suppliersâthe people who create the code that makes their tool possibleâinstead of simply stealing what they need and pretending thatâs fine.
This era weâre living through, with large companies stomping over all laws and regulations, blatantly stealing other peopleâs work for their own profit, cannot come to an end soon enough. It is destroying innovation, and we all suffer for that. Having one nifty tool like CoPilot that gives a bit of convenience is nowhere near worth the tremendous loss that Microsoftâs actions in this instace are creating for everyone.
On the blog: Superheroes Behaving Badly https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/21/super.html #rant #superhero #ethics
On the blog: Media and Imposed Morality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/11/mmedia.html #harm #ethics #safety #media
On the blog: Content Advisories https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/07/04/advisory.html #harm #ethics #safety
On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics
On the blog: Wanted â Ethical Media Consumption https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/08/02/ethmedia.html #media #license #ethics #rant