Comment: Some common sense is actually on display from a UN representative. We're floored.
The United Nations has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) systems may pose a "negative, even catastrophic" threat to human rights and called for AI applications that are not used in compliance with human rights to be banned.
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Sept. 15 urged members states to put a temporary ban on the sale and use of AI until the potential risks it poses have been addressed and adequate safeguards put in place to ensure the technology will not be abused.
"We cannot afford to continue playing catch-up regarding AI โ allowing its use with limited or no boundaries or oversight and dealing with the almost inevitable human rights consequences after the fact," Bachelet said in a statement.
"The power of AI to serve people is undeniable, but so is AI's ability to feed human rights violations at an enormous scale with virtually no visibility. Action is needed now to put human rights guardrails on the use of AI, for the good of all of us," the human rights chief added.
Her remarks come shortly after her office published a report that analyzes how AI affects people's right to privacy, as well as a string of other rights regarding health, education, freedom of movement, and freedom of expression, among others.
The document includes an assessment of profiling, automated decision-making, and other machine-learning technologies.
While the report notes that AI can be used for good use, and can help "societies overcome some of the great challenges of our times," its use as a forecasting and profiling tool can drastically impact "rights to privacy, to a fair trial, to freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention and the right to life."
According to the report, numerous states and businesses often fail to carry out due diligence while rushing to incorporate AI applications, and in some cases, this has resulted in dangerous blunders, with some people reportedly being mistreated and even arrested due to flawed facial recognition software.
Meanwhile, facial recognition has the potential to allow for unlimited tracking of individuals, which may well lead to an array of issues surrounding discrimination and data protection.
As many AI systems rely on large data sets, further issues surrounding how this data is stored in the long-term also poses a risk, and there is potential for such data to be exploited in the future, which could post significant national security risks.
"The complexity of the data environment, algorithms and models underlying the development and operation of AI systems, as well as intentional secrecy of government and private actors are factors undermining meaningful ways for the public to understand the effects of AI systems on human rights and society," the report states.
Tim Engelhardt, a human rights officer in the Rule of Law and Democracy Section, warned that the situation is "dire" and that it has only become worse over the years as some countries and businesses adopt AI applications while failing to research the multiple potential risks associated with the technology.
While he welcomes the EU's agreement to "strengthen the rules on control," he noted that a solution to the myriad of issues surrounding AI won't be coming in the next year and that the first steps to resolve these issues need to be taken now or "many people in the world will pay a high price."
"The higher the risk for human rights, the stricter the legal requirements for the use of AI technology should be," Bachelet added.
The report and Bachelet's comments come following July's revelations that spyware, known as Pegasus, was used to hack the smartphones of thousands of people around the world, including journalists, government officials, and human rights activists.
The phone of France's finance minister Bruno Le Maire was just one of many being investigated amid the hack via the spyware, which was developed by the Israeli company NSO Group.
NSO Group issued a statement to multiple outlets that did not address the allegations, but said that the company will "continue to provide intelligence and law enforcement agencies around the world with life-saving technologies to fight terror and crime."
Speaking at the Council of Europe hearing on the implications stemming from the Pegasus spyware controversy, Bachelet said the revelations came as no surprise, given the "unprecedented level of surveillance across the globe by state and private actors."
Reader Comments
"Homogenization, stagnation, and artificial scarcity are the main components of their qlippothic anti-life "freemason" agendas. Which includes their AI narratives, btw. I mean, if you haven't recognized it yet, most of the internet (at least anything that's suppoed to be influential) is infilitrated, artificial, fraudulent projection garbage to perpetuate that fundamentally excessive anti-life industrial agenda."
When the projections, impositions are pervasive, you know what your enemy is.
Also, that point you make about "ad-driven" civilization is clearly associated with that. In that, for instance, when a doctor becomes sufficiently indoctrinated, he peddles from the association of symptoms with marketed drug catalogues. Essentially meaning, marketing is known as "education".
So here are the three pillars of "schooling":
1. Education (indoctrination).
2. Punishment/Reward (affirmation, validation, enforcement of indoctrination).
3. Marketing (now that you have your noddy badge, you can flaunt it as a drug dealer with total ignorance and glamourize those drugs you profit from, yet everyone else is degenerated by, while being a piece of shit).
The machines algorithmically imitating live don't scare me.
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I don't need either.
Btw, I coded physics for about a decade. I stopped coding physics about 10 years ago coz I knew the hardware is useless, the methods even worse.
Homogenization, stagnation, and artificial scarcity are the main components of their qlippothic antilife "freemason" agendas. Which includes their AI narratives, btw.
I know my enemies.
If you don't mind metal, I'll be doing this.
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Like for instance one of the dead fragments of cells in your body looking at the rest of the body and going like "I scienced this, totally know what should be done".
That's the sort of quantum intellect "educated" industrial types have achieved.
If the basis is industrialism, I promise you it is degenerate, entropic and will be dead.
You people haven't even figured out (intentionally?) Maxwell was basically correct, except, the aether isn't constant, it's just the varying density unaccounted for shit. Maxwell considered the aether constant because of his frame of reference (that being Earth). Space doesn't fucking exist hey. I mean, that should be obvious...but apparently people are clever.
What? The amount of contradictions there is astounding. Like facetiously sarcastic or what? Like, who codes that shit, for what purposes, can't you decide by yourself that all of shit should fuckoff forever?
You go have AI make your judgments. I'll judge you and your AI into oblivion.
But, remember, the only constant in terms of knowledge is that history is always changing to influence the present based on the promises for the future.
So...that's why I built spaceships from tetrahedral structures in plants. Amazing, didn't know it was possible. But I already did it.
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Sorry I'm just trolling at this point.
See. I'm kinda like, from Africa, the old Africa. Like, back before Jesus was a thing.
I mistyped there. Btw, can someone please explain, like what drugs are, what they do? Coz I figured, absolutely anything I experience alters my mind. So, it's impossible to be sober.
Maybe you know some drugs that can help me with that? I'm tired of the mind altering shit.
I'm a gambler now.
So I know a junkie on the street, he sleeps outside, he barely eats food, he shoots up heroin like 50 times a month. He's actually like, kinda okay.
Now, I would like someone to prove to me, that comparably, any given vaccine is more beneficial, safer in any way than that. Go take 50 (non-placebo) MMR injections in a month. I'm betting on the heroin guy.