‘You can do both’: experts seek ‘good AI’ while attempting to avoid the bad; The Guardian, July 7, 2023

Hannah Devlin. The Guardian ; ‘You can do both’: experts seek ‘good AI’ while attempting to avoid the bad

"“We know how to make AI that people want, but we don’t know how to make AI that people can trust,” said Marcus.

The question of how to imbue AI with human values is sometimes referred to as “the alignment problem”, although it is not a neatly defined computational puzzle that can be resolved and implemented in law. This means that the question of how to regulate AI is a massive, open-ended scientific question – on top of significant commercial, social and political interests that need to be navigated...

“Mass discrimination, the black box problem, data protection violations, large-scale unemployment and environmental harms – these are the actual existential risks,” said Prof Sandra Wachter of the University of Oxford, one of the speakers at the summit. “We need to focus on these issues right now and not get distracted by hypothetical risks. This is a disservice to the people who are already suffering under the impact of AI.”"