Gizmodo is launching a new weekly thing about artificial intelligence.
and there’s been a lot of chatter about whose head will be on the chopping block first. But another question worth asking is: who islikely to be laid off and replaced by a corporate algorithm? The answer apparently is: barbers. That answer comes from a recently publishedthat looked at the jobs considered most “exposed” to artificial intelligence .
You’ve been researching artificial intelligence for quite some time. How did you first get interested in this subject? What was appealing about it? What got you hooked?My background is as a researcher studying the political economy of the tech industry. That’s been the primary focus of my core work over the last decade, tracking how these big tech companies behave. My earlier work focused on the advent of commercial surveillance as a business model of networked technologies.
The number of cautionary tales from Hollywood concerning AI really abounds. But in some ways I think it also has a detrimental effect because it positions AI as this sort of existential threat which is, in many ways, a distraction from the very real reality of how AI systems are effecting people in the here and now.
I think that—from a policy standpoint—we should curb the greatest harms of AI systems entirely...Take emotion recognition, for example. There is widespread scientific consensus that the use of AI systems that attempt to infer anything about your inner state is pseudo-scientific. It doesn’t hold any meaningful validity—there’s robust evidence to support that.
Yeah, I definitely understand the cynicism. That’s why the “Zero Trust” framework starts with the idea of using the [regulatory] tools we already have—enforcing existing laws by the FTC across different sectional domains is the right way to start. There’s an important signal that we’ve seen from the enforcement agencies, which wasfrom a few months ago, which expressed their intention to do just that.
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