2023-06-12 07:17:04
In recent months, due to the rise in popularity that artificial intelligence has experienced thanks to tools such as ChatGPT o Midjourneynumerous experts and business leaders have raised their voices to point out that a technology as powerful as this should be legislated.
A few weeks ago, thousands of industry leaders signed a manifesto to slow down the development of the most advanced AI models, like GPT-4.
Although that letter was criticized at the time due to the hidden intentions that some of its signatories (businessmen such as Elon Musk o Steve Wozniak), another manifesto has recently emerged supported by more than 350 researchers who has compared the risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity with a nuclear war or a pandemic.
Experts in the field consider that the need to regulate this technology to align it with the ethics of users and the companies that use it is a priority. At least that is how Cristina Aranda, co-founder of Big Onion and Mujeres Tech, and Vanesa Alarcón, partner of Ecija Abogados, have defended it.
Aranda and Alarcón participated on May 24 in a Smart Business Meeting organized by Business Insider Spain, which was dedicated precisely to addressing the challenges posed by the rise of AI from an ethical, legal and moral point of view.
“The great challenge is to regulate misinformation”
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The co-founder of Big Onion and the partner of Ecija Abogados participated in a round table, moderated by Manuel del Campo, CEO of Axel Springer Spain, in which they discussed ethical regulation and the responsibility of companies developing artificial intelligence.
“We need more critical spirit in training, more philosophy in the classroom,” Aranda began by asking, referring to what she considers one of the fundamental problems of this technology: disinformation. “Knowing where these sources of information come from, not believing everything,” she added.
Another of the problems that the co-founder of Big Onion brought up and that the misuse of AI can generate was momentous decision-making by algorithms and not by people. “The banks themselves do not know why they are denying me a loan or a mortgage”, he gave as an example.
“Ethics is made by people, people are the ones who program, we are the ones who produce that data, which is biased,” he said.
For her part, the partner of Ecija Abogados pointed out how important the approach is when evaluating the possible improper use that is given to these tools: “If we start from the base of the uses, it is totally logical that we take into account how we use those tools because, if we are objective, technology as such we could say that it is neutral“.
“Perhaps the observation is that technology It’s not as neutral as I imagined.. It is neutral at the tool level, but the impact it has at the environmental level, for example, is no longer neutral there,” Alarcón added.
For this reason, the expert defended that “it is extremely important that companies decide what they want to do, how they want to do it…”.
“Spain is one of the pioneers”
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During the talk, they came out to discuss purely legislative issues such as the sandbox artificial intelligence regulatory framework proposed by the Government of Spain.
“Situations like the whole theme of the sandboxthere The whole theme of experimentation is being promoted with the application of AI, with the establishment of guidelines and tools that help promote this”, explained the partner of Ecija Abogados. “In this sense, Spain is indeed one of the pioneers”.
From an ethical point of view, the Big Onion co-founder stressed the importance of a key concept: “The explainability consists of that artificial intelligence that we are using to make a decision, that we know what variables are being assumed within that algorithmif you are taking into account those variables related to identity, gender or age, among others”.
“They make decisions that the people who are managing these algorithms cannot justify,” said Aranda, referring precisely to the importance of the concept. “Everything is no longer valid, you have to justify why you are denying me a loan or consumer financing.”
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