When AI hurts people, who’s to blame? Global experts grapple with accountability

When AI hurts people, who’s to blame? Global experts grapple with accountability

“Across 11 Global South countries, up to one child per classroom reported that AI was used to make sexually explicit deepfakes of them. Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material to the US CyberTip line, NCMEC, are rising exponentially,” said Sonia Livingstone, from the Independent International Global Scientific Panel on AI.Highlighting other key findings from the panel’s first preliminary report mandated by the UN General Assembly, Ms. Livingstone insisted that the evidence for AI-linked violations against individuals, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups was “much more compelling” than the benefits.This is because the technology is being used “to create and amplify persuasion and deceit, to spread disinformation, distrust”, with personal data “taken, manipulated, abused, exploited” by self-learning systems, she maintained.

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Professor Sonia Livingstone, UN Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, addresses the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Switzerland.

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