Category: 4.1 Society (General)
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Don’t blame the AI; it’s on you
On the heels of yesterday’s post on how AIs are not responsible for their advice, the inverse also holds true: You are responsible for your actions and can’t put the blame on an AI whose advice you followed. Grok correctly puts the blame on you and, possibly, on their owner for giving bad advice. None…
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AIs are not responsible for their actions
ChatGPT charms, Grok apologizes, and (some) people fall for it. There is no deliberate action, and there definitely is no responsibility that lies with the AI. It is tempting to anthropomorphize AIs, but if you ever wonder, here for your reference is what Grok has to say about who is responsible. Grok on who owns…
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A simple fun example of how a computer reads intent wrong
I read an article about India and wanted to know how much money “2 lakh” is in Euro. The search engine responded as follows:
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Funding universal basic income with rent from your data
A person’s universal basic income (UBI) is income that this person is guaranteed to receive whatever their living circumstances. The income should allow the person to have a humane life, i.e. pay for food and housing, healthcare and so forth. One concern is that UBI may be too costly. Most assume that UBI will paid…
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Digital sovereignty for Germany?
Last week the German government published a commissioned study on how it depends on software and services vendors (local copy). The day after the publication, Cathrin Schaer of ZDnet called to ask for my thoughts on the study and digital sovereignty for Germany: Is it even possible? Cathrin’s resulting article picked up some of our…
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Position statement on the use of ML / AI techniques in software engineering for the adesso Hochschulbeirat
I just submitted the following short position statement on how to work with ML / AI techniques in software engineering. This is a statement on using such techniques for the engineering of software, not in the software itself, which is a (not completely, but mostly) separate issue. ML / AI techniques can be used in…