A.I. in, garbage out
The Colorado state legislature passed a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, and our tech overlords were mostly OK with it. Uh-oh. BY PETER MOORE, SPECIAL TO THE COLORADO SUN.
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ARE YOU TERRIFIED by artificial intelligence? So are Colorado state legislators, who passed Senate Bill 205, the nation’s first attempt to regulate robo brains. They enacted A.I. controls in employment, lending, financial and legal services, insurance, health, housing and — redundancy alert! — in government.
Feel better now? Don’t!
Note that Google, IBM, and Microsoft visited our statehouse to support the bill. How good could it possibly be? Even our high-tech gov, who made his second and third fortunes selling greeting cards and flowers online, signed Senate Bill 205 only reluctantly because he thought the law needed serious tweaking.
The problem: The data sets that A.I. depends on are corrupted by human foibles, which A.I. algorithms then concentrate and amplify. Be very afraid! And the law doesn’t even take effect until 2026! If we survive that long!
Until then we’ll all need to be on cyber alert as A.I. infiltrates our lives…
At the loan office
At the bank
If you need insurance
If you buy a house
At the health clinic
When you need a lawyer
If you apply to college
If you’re a citizen
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. You know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, and he's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon? Doesn't work out.”
—Elon Musk
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