"You can't make up for the terrible things you do at your day job with ethics offsets. If you want to truly do good work, you're better off applying your ethical framework to your day job. If you really feel bad about what you're doing at Palantir, go change what's happening at Palantir"
— Mike Monteiro: Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It, p. 90
Farhan Naqvi iLearningEngines is raising a crucial question: Can we govern AI before it governs us?
As AI systems become more powerful and widespread, regulation is struggling to keep up. Without ethical guardrails and global cooperation, we risk building technology we can’t control.
It’s time to align innovation with responsibility.
"Foreword by Vivianne Castillo
In the early 1900s, some psychiatric hospitals gauged patients' readiness to integrate back into society through a simple and peculiar test. The patient was ushered into a room with a sink, where the hospital staff would place a plug in the sink, turn on the faucet, and wait for the sink to overflow. As water bubbled over the ledge and splashed onto the floor below, the patient was then handed a mop and the staff would leave the room, closing the door behind them. If the patient turned off the water, unplugged the sink, and mopped up the water that had spilled onto the floor, they were deemed as ready to go home and enter back into society. But if the patient opted to frantically mop as the water gushed over the sink, failing to turn off the faucet or remove the sink's plug, they were deemed insane and prescribed more time in the psychiatric hospital: they failed to acknowledge and address the root of the problem.
Many of you in the tech industry are frantically mopping."
— Mike Monteiro: Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It, p. 7
AI deployment with a move‑fast mindset isn’t just risky, it invites systemic blowback. IEEE Spectrum draws parallels to electronic health records (EHRs), where poor interoperability, rushed tools, and security gaps led to clinician burnout, medical errors, and massive data breaches. Speed without caution can cost lives and trust.
TL;DR
Accelerated AI adoption risks large systemic failures
Health tech history shows predictable unintended harm
Interoperability and security cannot be afterthoughts
The rush for innovation may create new vulnerabilities
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-systemic-blowback
#AI #SystemicBlowback #DigitalHealth #ResponsibleTech #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #WSD
AI isn’t always neutral.
Bias in algorithms can impact fairness, decisions, and trust. Learn what AI bias is, why it happens, and how it’s being addressed.
Full post here:
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Can we now please stop saying (or thinking) that the public sector will never be able to produce #LLMs that can compete with big tech…especially when they are focused on the #publicgood, are built on each other’s work using public funding, and have integrated #responsibleTech principles from the very beginning…
Model with 70 billion parameters Trained on 1500 languages Trained on 60% English, 40% non-English Open Source Apache 2.0 license
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