According to Dr Lynn Parker, a former member of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, ethical considerations in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) have come too late in the process. While AI has been around since the 1950s, the technology’s impact on society has led to questions about trust and ethics. Although AI can perform life-saving tasks, such as analysing medical images to identify diseases, it can also generate fake news and be used to harm people if placed in the wrong hands. Accordingly, global leaders have been called upon to mitigate the risk of extinction from AI technology. With AI impacting almost every sector of society, experts have suggested that AI development should be slowed or halted entirely. However, as AI is part of society now, Dr Parker believes that ethics and trustworthiness need to be built into every stage of research going forward.
The person mentioned in the article is Dr Lynn Parker, a former member of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The company mentioned in the article is Google, which was previously the employer of Geoffrey Hinton, also known as the godfather of AI. Recently, Hinton resigned from his job, stating that AI technologies could be used to harm people and cause the end of humanity. Additionally, other big names in the industry, including the CEO of OpenAI and the CEO of Google DeepMind, have called for global leaders to focus on mitigating risks associated with AI technology.
